Charles C. Noble

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don’t like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

I am not prejudiced in any way.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn’t equal the right thing for one day.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.

I know nothing and my heart aches.

I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.

I don’t write letters anymore.