“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.”
Phil Donahue (1935) American talk show host, film producer and writer
Attributed to Phil Donahue in: Dennis Coon, John Mitterer (2008), Psychology: Modules for Active Learning. p. 553
Also found in "Quotations According to Woody Allen" http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22quotations+according%22#search_anchor from the New York Times, 1 December 1975.
“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.”
Phil Donahue (1935) American talk show host, film producer and writer
Attributed to Phil Donahue in: Dennis Coon, John Mitterer (2008), Psychology: Modules for Active Learning. p. 553
“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972)
Cate Blanchett (1969) Australian actress
Cate Blanchett: 'You know you're a pessimist when you win an Oscar and think, "Oh God, I've peaked"', The Guardian, 30 November 2013 http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/30/cate-blanchett-actor-pessimist-oscar,
Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
" Full text of Tony Blair's resignation speech http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/the_blair_years/article1772414.ece", Times Online, 10 May 2007. <br class="br">Announcing his impending resignation, Trimdon Labour Club, 10 May 2007. <br class="br">2000s
“Luck is probability taken personally.”
Penn Jillette (1955) American magician
Often repeated by Penn Jillette, who attributes this quote to Chip Denman.[citation needed]
Misattributed