Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.

- Barbara Mertz

Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.

- Barbara Mertz

Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.

- Barbara Mertz

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

- Barbara Mertz

That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.

- Barbara Mertz

I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful peo…

- Barbara Mertz

To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.

- Barbara Mertz

People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and …

- Barbara Mertz

Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm…

- Barbara Mertz