Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? ~ James Thurber #Quote
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. ~ Robert Benchley #Quote
Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant. ~ Will and Ariel Durant #Quote
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age — I missed it coming and going. ~ J.B. Priestly #Quote
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach #Quote
You can never get enough of what you don’t really need. ~ Eric Hoffer #Quote
Biography is one of the new terrors of death. ~ John Arbuthnot #Quote
Taxes are going up so fast that the government is likely to price itself right out of the market. ~ Dan Bennett #Quote
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ~ Henry Steele Commager #Quote
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. ~ Albert Einstein #Quote
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. ~ Oscar Wilde #Quote
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn. ~ Ray Bradbury #Quote
A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim. ~ Edward Gibbon #Quote
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. ~ Thomas Fuller #Quote
Releasing the pressure, it's good for the teapot and the water 🌊. Try it sometime. ~ Jeb Dickerson #Quote
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. ~ Saint Jerome #Quote
There are times to stay put and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself. ~ Lemony Snicket #Quote
An egotist is a man who thinks that if he hadn't been born, people would have wondered why. ~ Dan Post #Quote
The best way out is always through. ~ Robert Frost #Quote
How little it takes to make life unbearable. . . . A pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh 🤣. ~ H. L. Mencken #Quote
Because I really want to live in a country where the poor people are fat. ~ Unknown Indian Immigrant when asked why he wants to come to America #Quote
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. ~ François VI de la Rochefoucauld #Quote
Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science. ~ Steven Hayward #Quote
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ~ Author unknown #Quote
Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of bricks is a house. ~ Henri Poincaré #Quote
Let them grumble, that is how it is going to be ( Ainsi sera, groigne qui groigne). ~ Margaret of Austria (phrase made famous by Anne Boleyn, who learned it from Margaret) #Quote
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. ~ Mark Twain #Quote #Quote
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well. ~ Alexander Smith #Quote
No, you can't go getting mad at people because they're shitty. Life will get mad at them, don't worry. ~ Samuel Halpern #Quote
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ~ Alfred Whitney Griswold, New York Times, 24 February 1959 #Quote
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. ~ Orson Welles #Quote
When children stand quiet they have done some ill. ~ George Herbert #Quote
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us. ~ Hermann Hesse #Quote
If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time ⏳ is ripe. Learn to wait. ~ Robert Heinlein #Quote
It is only an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. ~ W. Somerset Maugham #Quote
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ~ Thomas H. Huxley #Quote
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. ~ George Orwell #Quote
It is dangerous to be right when your country is wrong. ~ Voltaire (François Marie Arouet) #Quote
Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. ~ Milton Friedman #Quote
Whose cruel idea was it for the word 'lisp' to have 's' in it? #Ponderables
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? ~ Rose Kennedy #Quote
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. ~ H. L. Mencken #Quote
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. ~ Voltaire (François Marie Arouet) #Quote
Of my friends I am the only one I have left. ~ Terence #Quote
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so. ~ Mark Twain #Quote
Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason. François De La Rochefoucauld #Quote
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. ~ H. L. Mencken #Quote #
Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ~ Romain Gary #Quote
I don't see why I have to make one man miserable when I can make so many men happy. ~ Ellyn Mustard #Quote
Lack of money 💰 is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. ~ Ken Hakuta #Quote
It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for. ~ William F. Buckley #Quote
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ~ E. Joseph Cossman #Quote
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. ~ Moliere #Quote
Wrinkles are Beauty's death-lines. ~ James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882 #Quote
Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed. ~ Phaedrus #Quote
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. ~ Benjamin Franklin #Quote
[The C programming language] makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows your whole leg off. ~ Bjarne Stroustrup #Quote
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw #Quote
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson #Quote
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. ~ Mark Twain #Quote
We are each a dozen people who were all the same child. ~ Robert Brault #Quote
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. ~ Rudyard Kipling #Quote
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~ Oscar Wilde #Quote #Quote
It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it. ~ Remy de Gourmont #Quote
[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it, is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it. ~ Jonah Goldberg #Quote
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. ~ Henry David Thoreau #Quote
You're only as young as the last time ⏳ you changed your mind. ~ Timothy Leary #Quote
[The] Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects. ~ Edward Gibbon #Quote
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ~ Nelson DeMille #Quote
It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. ~ Unknown, quoted in Sunshine magazine #Quote
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. ~ Antonio Porchia #Quote
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~ Clarence Darrow #Quote
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. ~ Max Beerbohm #Quote
Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy. ~ Sa'di #Quote
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. ~ Mark Twain #Quote
I wouldn't want to join any club that would accept me as a member. ~ Groucho Marx #Quote
Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ~ Franklin P. Jones #Quote
There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don’t necessarily want to be like them. I’m too happy being myself. ~ James D’arcy #Quot
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. ~ Calvin Coolidge #Quote
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. ~ T. S. Eliot #Quote
The more I practice, the luckier I get. ~ Unknown #Quote
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. ~ Eric Hoffer #Quote
Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary #Quote
A precedent embalms a principle. ~ Benjamin Disraeli #Quote
If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. ~ Anon #Quote
Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh 🤣. ~ George Bernard Shaw #Quote
Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. ~ Ruth Benedict #Quote
The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. ~ John S. Caldwell #Quote
There is no such thing on this earth 🌎 as something for nothing. ~ William Graham Sumner #Quote
The years teach much which the days never knew. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson #Quote
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. ~ Robert Benchley #Quote
Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant. ~ Will and Ariel Durant #Quote
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age — I missed it coming and going. ~ J.B. Priestly #Quote
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach #Quote
You can never get enough of what you don’t really need. ~ Eric Hoffer #Quote
Biography is one of the new terrors of death. ~ John Arbuthnot #Quote
Taxes are going up so fast that the government is likely to price itself right out of the market. ~ Dan Bennett #Quote
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ~ Henry Steele Commager #Quote
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. ~ Albert Einstein #Quote
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. ~ Oscar Wilde #Quote
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn. ~ Ray Bradbury #Quote
A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim. ~ Edward Gibbon #Quote
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. ~ Thomas Fuller #Quote
Releasing the pressure, it's good for the teapot and the water 🌊. Try it sometime. ~ Jeb Dickerson #Quote
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. ~ Saint Jerome #Quote
There are times to stay put and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself. ~ Lemony Snicket #Quote
An egotist is a man who thinks that if he hadn't been born, people would have wondered why. ~ Dan Post #Quote
The best way out is always through. ~ Robert Frost #Quote
How little it takes to make life unbearable. . . . A pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh 🤣. ~ H. L. Mencken #Quote
Because I really want to live in a country where the poor people are fat. ~ Unknown Indian Immigrant when asked why he wants to come to America #Quote
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. ~ François VI de la Rochefoucauld #Quote
Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science. ~ Steven Hayward #Quote
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ~ Author unknown #Quote
Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of bricks is a house. ~ Henri Poincaré #Quote
Let them grumble, that is how it is going to be ( Ainsi sera, groigne qui groigne). ~ Margaret of Austria (phrase made famous by Anne Boleyn, who learned it from Margaret) #Quote
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. ~ Mark Twain #Quote #Quote
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well. ~ Alexander Smith #Quote
No, you can't go getting mad at people because they're shitty. Life will get mad at them, don't worry. ~ Samuel Halpern #Quote
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ~ Alfred Whitney Griswold, New York Times, 24 February 1959 #Quote
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. ~ Orson Welles #Quote
When children stand quiet they have done some ill. ~ George Herbert #Quote
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us. ~ Hermann Hesse #Quote
If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time ⏳ is ripe. Learn to wait. ~ Robert Heinlein #Quote
It is only an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. ~ W. Somerset Maugham #Quote
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ~ Thomas H. Huxley #Quote
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. ~ George Orwell #Quote
It is dangerous to be right when your country is wrong. ~ Voltaire (François Marie Arouet) #Quote
Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. ~ Milton Friedman #Quote
Whose cruel idea was it for the word 'lisp' to have 's' in it? #Ponderables
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? ~ Rose Kennedy #Quote
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. ~ H. L. Mencken #Quote
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. ~ Voltaire (François Marie Arouet) #Quote
Of my friends I am the only one I have left. ~ Terence #Quote
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so. ~ Mark Twain #Quote
Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason. François De La Rochefoucauld #Quote
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. ~ H. L. Mencken #Quote #
Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ~ Romain Gary #Quote
I don't see why I have to make one man miserable when I can make so many men happy. ~ Ellyn Mustard #Quote
Lack of money 💰 is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. ~ Ken Hakuta #Quote
It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for. ~ William F. Buckley #Quote
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ~ E. Joseph Cossman #Quote
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. ~ Moliere #Quote
Wrinkles are Beauty's death-lines. ~ James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882 #Quote
Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed. ~ Phaedrus #Quote
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. ~ Benjamin Franklin #Quote
[The C programming language] makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows your whole leg off. ~ Bjarne Stroustrup #Quote
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw #Quote
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson #Quote
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. ~ Mark Twain #Quote
We are each a dozen people who were all the same child. ~ Robert Brault #Quote
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. ~ Rudyard Kipling #Quote
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~ Oscar Wilde #Quote #Quote
It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it. ~ Remy de Gourmont #Quote
[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it, is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it. ~ Jonah Goldberg #Quote
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. ~ Henry David Thoreau #Quote
You're only as young as the last time ⏳ you changed your mind. ~ Timothy Leary #Quote
[The] Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects. ~ Edward Gibbon #Quote
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ~ Nelson DeMille #Quote
It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. ~ Unknown, quoted in Sunshine magazine #Quote
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. ~ Antonio Porchia #Quote
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~ Clarence Darrow #Quote
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. ~ Max Beerbohm #Quote
Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy. ~ Sa'di #Quote
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. ~ Mark Twain #Quote
I wouldn't want to join any club that would accept me as a member. ~ Groucho Marx #Quote
Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ~ Franklin P. Jones #Quote
There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don’t necessarily want to be like them. I’m too happy being myself. ~ James D’arcy #Quot
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. ~ Calvin Coolidge #Quote
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. ~ T. S. Eliot #Quote
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. ~ Eric Hoffer #Quote
Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary #Quote
A precedent embalms a principle. ~ Benjamin Disraeli #Quote
If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. ~ Anon #Quote
Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh 🤣. ~ George Bernard Shaw #Quote
Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. ~ Ruth Benedict #Quote
The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. ~ John S. Caldwell #Quote
There is no such thing on this earth 🌎 as something for nothing. ~ William Graham Sumner #Quote
The years teach much which the days never knew. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson #Quote
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