Lord Chesterfield

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

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Alma Powell

I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. (on why she was fearful of her husband running for president)

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Jimmy Breslin

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

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Frank Gelett Burgess

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead.

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Benjamin Franklin

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.

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Kurt Vonnegut

One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

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Unknown

Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

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Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

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Stanislaw Lem

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

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Demosthenes

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

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Nikita Khrushchev

Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.

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Thomas Mann

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

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