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“Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.”
— Alexandre Dumas (1802 – 1870), playwright, novelist
“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
“There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.”
“During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.”
“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”
— Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – April 11, 2007), author
The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows what is right and what is wrong.
— H.L. Mencken
There are four kinds of people in the world: those in love, the ambitious, the observers and the stupid. The most happy are the stupid.
— Hippolyte Taine, French critic and historian
Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name. Thy kingdom nada, thy will be nada, in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas, and nada us not into nada, but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
— Ernest Hemingway
In individuals insanity is rare, but in groups, parties, nations and epochs it is the rule.
— Friedrich Nietzche
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
— Woody Allen
Sometimes I think war is God’s way of teaching us geography.
— Paul Rodriguez, comedian
Saying, ‘My country, right or wrong’ is like saying, ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’
— G.K. Chesterton
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
— Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832), English poet, essayist
