Joe Keenan

There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.

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Laurence J. Peter

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

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Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

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Oscar Levant

When you give up drinking, you have to deal with that wonderful personality that started you drinking in the first place.

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Mort Sahl

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.

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Bertrand Russell

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

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Theodore Roosevelt

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not Guilty.

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James Madison

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

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John Stuart Mill

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

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Casey Stengel

I was not successful as a ballplayer, as it was a game of skill.

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Seneca

What once were vices are manners now.

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