Too Busy Thinking About My Comics II

“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of the skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour … “

 Aldous Huxley

(Panels by Wally Wood, Stan Le eet al, from Daredevil #7, 1965)

“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”

 Camus

(Panel by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, et al, from The X-Men #1, 1963)

“If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.”

Charles Caleb Cotton

(Panel by Werner Roth, Stan Lee, Dick Ayers et al, from X-Men #18. 1966)

“Delay is preferable to error.”

 Thomas Jefferson

(Panel by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Vince Colletta et al, from Journey Into Mystery #115, 1965)

“And worse I may be yet ; the worst is not so long as we can say ‘This is the worst’.”

 Shakespeare, King Lear

“O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!”

 Robert Burns

(Panels by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Chic Stone et al, from Journey Into Mystery #89, 1963)

“Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?”

 Karen Danielson Horney

(Panels by Jack Kirby, Don Heck, Stan Lee et al, from Tales To Astonish #49, 1963)

“You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.”

 James Thurber

(Panel by Steve Ditko, Stan Lee et al, from Amazing Spider-Man #13, June 1964)

“Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: It was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at the time, or, it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect. The man was born to do it, and his father was born to be the father of him and of this deed, and, by looking narrowly, you shall see there was no luck in the matter, but it was all a problem in arithmetic, or an experiment in chemistry.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

(Page by John Buscema, Joe Sinnott, Stan Lee et al, from Fantastic Four #110, 1971)

“We are told that men protect us; that they are generous, even chivalric in their protection. Gentlemen, if your protectors were women, and they took all your property and your children, and paid you half as much for your work, though as well or better done than your own, would you think much of the chivalry which permitted you to sit in street-cars and picked up your pocket- handkerchief?”

 Mary B Clay

(Panel by John Buscema, Stan Lee, Joe Sinnott et al, from Fantastic Four #11, 1971)