The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Sanders Law

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the kerb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Malcolm X (1925 – 1965)

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)

On Writing

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)

Television has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
Russell Baker (1925 - )

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)

Song Lyrics

I'm wishing Lord that I was stoned
'Cause there's something in a Sunday
That makes a body feel alone.
Johnny Cash

Twenty years have came and went since I walked out of your door
I never quite made it back to the one I was before
Tim McGraw

Until your back's up against the wall
You never know yourself that much at all
Beastie Boys

For all the dreams and schemes,
People are as they seem
On a hot summer night
Billy Idol

In my town all that’s right is wrong
Gilded sepulchres fly around
Religion please be gone.
Julian Cope

Riddles

George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee.
Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda.
Using logic, is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda?

I cannot be felt, seen or touched;
Yet I can be found in everybody;
My existence is always in debate;
Yet I have my own style of music.
What Am I?

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?