15 Quotes by Fredric Brown

No one can tell time except approximately, time never stands still to be named.

Tracy stood up and found that the room was swaying around him in a manner that would have been more disconcerting if it had been less familiar.

In all the universe only the human race has ever reached a high level of intelligence without reaching a high level of sanity. We are unique.

Fortunately, I have forgotten most of the things that have happened to me. Fortunately, the mind has a limited capacity for remembering. It would be horrible if I remembered the details of a hundred and eighty thousand years – the details of four thousand lifetimes that I have lived since the first great atomic war.

Don’t ever sell mankind short by saying there’s anything they can’t do.

The older you get, the less afraid of ghosts you are – whether you believe in them or not. By the time you pass the fifty mark you’ve known so many people who are now dead that ghosts, if there are any, aren’t all strangers. Some of your best friends are ghosts; why should you be afraid of them? And it’s not too many years before you’ll all be on the other side of the fence yourself.