Random Sample of Quotes |
 | Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. — P.J. O’ Rourke, 1947-2022, American columnist & writer 1 likes |
 | So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting. — Sinclair Lewis, 1885-1951, American writer, Nobel 1930 1 likes |
 | Kids are afraid of thunders and idiots are afraid of threats. Αι μεν βρονταί τους παίδας, αι δε απειλαί τους άφρονας καταπλήττουσι. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 25 likes |
 | Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. 3 likes |
 | I am the people — the mob — the crowd — the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? — Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967, American poet 4 likes |
 | Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem—in my opinion—to characterize our age. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 4 likes |
 | The soul of the diamond is the light. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 1 likes |
 | Drunkenness is temporary suicide. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 1 likes |
 | The ineptitude and folly of the bishops’ and popes’ chatter would annoy us, if we old Catholics had not fortunately learned as little children to sleep during the sermon. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 2 likes |
 | Three things to remember when you get older: never pass up a bathroom, never waste a hard-on, and never trust a fart. — from the film The Bucket List (2007) 5 likes |
 | A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 5 likes |
 | I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise. — Noel Coward, 1899-1973, British playwright 6 likes |
 | When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it. — Pliny the Elder, 23-79 μ.X., Roman natural philosopher 6 likes |
| The world has room to make a bear feel free; The universe seems cramped to you and me. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 5 likes |
 | It is better to live rich than to die rich. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 4 likes |
 | You always admire what you really don't understand. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 7 likes |
 | Destruction after all is a form of creation. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 1 likes |
 | Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 5 likes |
 | Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 4 likes |
 | If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people? — Anonymous 4 likes |
 | The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. — Lenny Bruce, 1925-1966, American comedian 6 likes |
 | Having good health means being able to abuse it with impunity. — Michel Tournier, 1924-2016, French writer 4 likes |
 | After a storm comes a calm. 3 likes |
 | I think that I think, therefore I think that I am. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 9 likes |
 | Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside. — Coco Chanel, 1883-1971, French fashion designer 1 likes |
 | My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. — Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American comedian 6 likes |
 | Don't be afraid of perfection, you will never achieve it. — Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter 6 likes |
 | Fools desire longevity without enjoying longevity. Ανοήμονες δηναιότητος ορέγονται ου τερπόμενοι δηναιότητι. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 10 likes |
| There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off. — P.J. O’ Rourke, 1947-2022, American columnist & writer 1 likes |
| One of the worst intellectual disasters is found in the appropriation of scientific concepts and vocabulary by mediocre intelligences. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 1 likes |
 | Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 7 likes |
 | If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 9 likes |
 | Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. — Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer 7 likes |
 | For some strange reason, the absolutely correct axiom “no one is irreplaceable” often leads to the disastrous distortion: “anyone can replace anyone.” — Manolis Doukides, Greek writer 3 likes |
 | A change of style is a change of meaning. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 4 likes |
 | Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman 1 likes |
 | Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 4 likes |
| There is not love of life without despair about life. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 7 likes |
| How is it that it is only by looking for the words that we find the thoughts! — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 1 likes |
