2. Your Opera is very nice. Someday I'd like to set it to music --- L. Van Beethoven
3. There is no excellent beauty which hath not some strangeness in the porportion --- Francis Bacon
4. The deepest sin against the human mind is believing things without evidence --- Thomas Huxley.
5. It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them --- Adlai Stevenson
6. His mind is not for rent to any God or government --- Neil Pert.
7. Once a man, like the sea, I raged; once a woman, like the earth, I gave. And there is, of course more earth than sea --- Peter Gabriel.
8. No one worth possessing can be quite passessed --- Sara Teasda
9. In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer --- Camus.
10. No one is free who is a slave to the body --- Seneca
11. Never am I less alone than when I am by myself, never am I more active than when I appear to do nothing - Marcus Cato.
12. In Famine Street, there is nothing left but the heart to eat --- Edith Sitwell
13. The position of woman in a society provides an exact measure of the development of that society - Gustav Geiger
14. Beauty is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in the beholder - Benedict Spinoza
15. I never wonder to see men wicked, but i often wonder not to see them ashamed - Swift
16. There is no need for man and no demand for man in nature; it is complete without him - William Graham Sumner.
17. What a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life - Marcus Aurelius
18. Common sense is not so common - Voltaire
19. The vanity of being known to be entrusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it - Samuel Johnson
20. The music teacher came twice each week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin --- George Ade.
21. If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee -- Abraham Lincoln.
22. Parents who fear the results of their children's exposure to homosexuals seem to have little faith in the attactiveness of heterosexuality -- Gloria Steinem.
23. I earnestly ask my sisters to keep clear of the jargon about the rights of women which urges women to do all that men do, merely because men do it, without regard to whether this is the best that women can do - Florence Nightingale.
24. God created Adam master and lord of all creatures, but Eve spoiled all --- Martin Luther
25. No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day they got up -- Richard Harding Davis
26. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, the pessimist fears this is true --- James Branch Cabell.
27. We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much vaunted act of slaughtering whole peoples? --- Seneca
28. Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends --- Alexander Pope
29. It is a shabby, genteel sentiment which makes men believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes -- William Reade
30. Observation, no old age, brings wisdom --- Publitius Syrus
31. There was no respect for youth when i was young and now that i'm old, there's no respect for age -- J.B. Priestly
32. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat -- Lily Tomlin
33. All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few --- Stendhal
34. You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea --- John Noveen
35. A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are --- Victor Lownes
36. We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us --- Lionel Trilling
37. I think think; Therefore i think i am --- Ambrose Bierce
38. Philosopy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing --- Ambrose Bierce
39. How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers --- Gioacchino Rossini
40. Woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity --- Eric Hoffer.
41. I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize --- Sha....
42. This muck heaves and palpitates. It is mutidirectional and it has a mayor --- Donald Bathelme (on New York)
43. The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player --- G.B. Shaw
44. The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists -- which is why they invented Hell --- Bertrand Russell
45. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike --- Oscar Wilde
46. Traditional morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong --- H.L. Menchen
47. Those who have some means thnik that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money --- Gerald Brenan
48. Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman --- G.B. Shaw
49. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer --- Dean Acheson
50. Dont knock masturbation -- it's sex with someone i love --- Woody Allen
51. Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and pets are too passive for me, i prefer to remain unmarried --- Karl Kraus
52. A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it --- Oscar Wilde
53. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished - J.W. Von Gothe
54. Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police - Robert Louis Stevenson
55. Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage - Ambrose Bierce
56. Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there? - Herb Caen
57. Liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them - Lenny Bruce
58. Laziness is simply the habit of resting before you get tired - Jules Renard
59. Lawyers, I suppose, were children once - Charles Lamb
60. If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers? - Calvin Trillin
61. Lawsuit: a machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage - Ambrose Bierce
62. Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead - H.L. Mencken
63. Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem - John Galsworthy
64. Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients - Karl Kraus
65. Heinrich Heine so loosened the corset of the German languae that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts - Karl Kraus
66. If I return people's greetings, I do so only to give them their greetings back - Karl Kraus
67. A hunter is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something - Stephen Leacock
68. No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public - H.L. Mencken
69. There is always an easy solution to every human problem: neat, plausible, and wrong - H.L. Mencken
70. Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies - H.L. Mencken
71. The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits - H.L. Mencken
72. The great artists of the world are never puritans and seldom even ordinarily respectable - H.L.M.
73. Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey - H.L.M.
74. If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven is clearly superior to God - H.L. Mencken
75. There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity ofr happiness - H.L. Mencken
76. Man weeps to think that he will die so soon, woman, that she was born so long ago - H.L. Mencken
77. Lord, grant that i may always desire more than i can accomplish - Michelangelo
78. A man paints with his brains and not with his hand - Michelangelo
79. The perpetual abstacle to human advancement is custom - John Stuart Mill
80. The great creative individual is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man can ever be - John Stuart Mill
81. My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night - Edna St. Vincent Millay
82. It's not true that life's one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over again - Edna St. Vincent Millay
83. Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators - Olin Miller
84. You can't roller-skate in a buffalo herd - Roger Miller
85. Love is the only circumstance in which the female is pardoned for sexual activity - Kate Millet
86. For every artist with something to say but the inability to say it well, there are two who could say something well if they had anything to say- Paul Mills
87. To my embarrassment, i was born in bed with a lady - Wilson Mizner
88. Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave - Wilson Mizner
89. A fellow who's always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions - Wilson Mizner
90. Gambling: a sure way of getting nothing for something - Wilson Mizner
91. I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education - Wilson Mizner
92. War hath no fury like a non-combatant - Charles Montague
93. Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known - Michel de Montaigne
94. We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death - Baron de Montesquieu
95. A man always has 2 reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason - J.P. Morgan
96. The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking - Christopher Morley
97. There is only one success, and that is to be able to spend life in your own way - Christopher Morley
98. People are strange when you're a stranger, faces look ugly when you're alone. Women seem wicked when you're unwanted, streets are uneven when you're down - Jim Morrison
99. Cancel my subscription to the resurrection - Jim Morrison
100. It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument - William McAdoo
101. If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work - Ogden Nash
102. The thoughtless are rarely wordless - Howard Newton
103. Very little is known of the war of 1812 because the Americans lost it - Eric Nicol
104. He who has a why to live can bearalmost any how - Friedrich Nietzsche
105. The tragic lesson of guilty men walking free in this country has not been lost on the criminal community - Rickhard Nixon
106. What are our schools for if not indoctrination against communism? - Richard Nixon
107. The Italians, you can't find one who's honest - Richard Nixon
108. Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a bucket of swill - George Orwell
109. My life has seemed like one long obstacle course, with me as its chief obstacle - Jack Paar
110. Don't look back, something might be gaining on you - Satchel Paige
111. I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away - Thomas Peacock
112. Marriage is the sole cause of divorce - Laurence J. Peter
113. In most courts, a man is assumed guilty until proven influential - Laurence J. Peter
114. Most hierarchies were established by men who monopolize the upper levels, thus depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence - Laurence J. Peter
115. It is fear that first brought god into the world - Petronius
116. Oh my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible - Pindar
117. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it - Lord Acton
118. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely - Lord Acton
119. Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry - George Ade
120. The gods help them that help themselves - Aesop
121. The greatest thing that you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return - Eden Ahbez
122. Money is round; it rolls away - Sholom Aleichem
123. A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized - Fred Allen
124. I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me Fred Allen
125. What's on your mind, if you'll forgive the overstatement - Fred Allen
126. The last time i saw Ray, he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand - Fred Allen
127. Most of the time i don't have much fun; the rest of the time, i don't have any fun at all-Woody Allen
128. Bisexuality immediatley doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night - Woody Allen
129. I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens - Woody Allen
130. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, i want to achieve it through not dying - Woody Allen
131. I'm afraid of the dark and suspicious of the light - Woody Allen
132. The glory of writing is that it forces us out of ourselves into the lives of others - Sherwood Anderson
133. He who hesitates is lost - Anonymous
134. If everything is coming yourway, you're probably going the wrong way down a one way street - anonymous
135. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them - Aristotle
136. There is no right way to do the wrong thing - Oren Arnold
137. Every man is worth just as much as the things with which he busies himself are worth - Marcus Aurelius
138. It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live - Marcus Aurelius
139. Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed - Francis Bacon
140. Laws are spider webs through which big flies escape and little ones get caught - Honore de Balzac
141. When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do Honore de Balzac
142. Is importance nothing? The respect of fools, the amazement of children, the envy of the rich, the scorn of the wise - Barnave
143. Nothing is really work unless you'd rather be doing something else - James M. Barrie
144. I'm not young enough to know everything - James M. Barrie
145. The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have to be good - John Barrymore
146. Absence makes the heart grow fonder - Thomas H. Bayly
147. And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make - The Beatles
148. It's not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them - Beaumarchais
149. To give an accurate account of that period would take a far less brilliant pen than mine - Max Beerbohm
150. Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves - Brendan Behan
151. It took me 15 years to discover i had no talent for writing, but i couldn't give it up, because by that time, i was too famous - Robert Benchley
156. Drawing on my fine command of lanugage, i said nothing - Robert Benchley
157. Consistancy requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago - Bernard Berenson
158. Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed - Bernard Berenson
159. Art is I; science is we - Claude Bernard
160. You can observe a lot by just watching - Yogi Berra
161. It aint over till it's over - Yogi Berra
162. Religion: A daughter of hope and fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the unknowable - Ambrose Bierce
163. Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be - Ambrose Bierce
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