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Health food makes me sick.
- Calvin TrillinUS columnist (1935 - )

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. MenckenUS editor (1880 - 1956)

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
- Voltaire, Candide, 1759French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)

Grub first, then ethics.
- Bertolt BrechtGerman Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
- Nancy Mitford

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
- Quentin Crisp

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
- William F. Buckley Jr.

We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the Pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning.
- Judie Brown, President, American Life Lobby

Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.
- Jimmy Swaggart

I think contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.
- Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro-Life Action League

Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.
- H. L. MenckenUS editor (1880 - 1956)

History is a set of lies agreed upon.
- Napoleon BonaparteFrench general & politician (1769 - 1821)

It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.
- Mark TwainUS humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
- UnknownQuotations by unknown authors

Knowledge is power.
- Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer.
- Robert FrostUS poet (1874 - 1963)

Obviously something slipped through here.
- Reverend John Vaughan, Financial administrator for the Archdiocese of Miami (when asked why they held stock in companies that ma

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
- Groucho MarxUS comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977)

Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?
- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

The wicked at heart probably know something.
- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

My Lord, my Lord! What hast Thou done, lately?
- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.
- Fran LebowitzUS writer and humorist (1950 - )

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, 1845British politician (1804 - 1881)

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel ButlerEnglish composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902)

Grief is a species of idleness.
- Samuel JohnsonEnglish author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.
- Machiavelli

Early to rise and early to bed Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
- James ThurberUS author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961)

Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses.
- H. L. MenckenUS editor (1880 - 1956)

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.
- R. D. Laing

War is like love; it always finds a way.
- Bertolt BrechtGerman Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.
- Cleveland Amory

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
- Sir Francis BaconEnglish author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
- Robert W. Sarnoff

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
- Calvin TrillinUS columnist (1935 - )

Wife: a former sweetheart.
- H. L. MenckenUS editor (1880 - 1956)

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
- Don DeLillo

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.
- Arthur KoestlerBritish (Hungarian-born) author (1905 - 1983)

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGerman dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)

It is not enough to succeed; others must fail.
- Gore VidalUS author & dramatist (1925 - )

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
- William SafireUS columnist & speechwriter (1929 - )

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
- Oscar WildeIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who belive in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. ...And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.
- President Herbert Hoover, in proposing the abolition of the United Nations, in favor of a "cooperation of God-fearing free natio

Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - and on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - and we will neglect it at our peril.
- President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U.S. Gov. 1966 p1063

Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.
- President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U.S. Gov. 1966 pp548-549

It sure does, Ben, it definitely does...this is definite...it specifically clearly, unequivocally says that Russia and other countries will enter into war and God will destroy Russia through earthquakes, volcanoes...
- Pat Robertson, when asked the question "Does the Bible specifically tell us what is going to happen in the future", "700 Club" D

America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.
- President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny KayeUS actor & singer (1913 - 1987)

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
- H. L. MenckenUS editor (1880 - 1956)

Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect.
- Steven WrightUS comedian and actor (1955 - )

 

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