Stephen's Quotes for the Depression Forums 7-12

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
-- Stephen Leacock

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-- Umberto Eco

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
-- Jim Horning