Random Sample of Quotes |
 | – Youth unemployment has increased. – What the hell, don't they ever get old? — Altan, 1942-, Italian comics artist & satirist 2 likes |
 | A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. |
 | Happiness lies in the physical life, sorrow in thought. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist 3 likes |
 | The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. — Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher 18 likes |
 | I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 5 likes |
 | There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. |
 | As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. — Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker 13 likes |
 | Always be a poet, even in prose. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 4 likes |
 | Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. — Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012, American comedian 2 likes |
 | Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin. — Robert Heinlein, 1907-1988, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | The night has a thousand eyes. |
 | I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead. |
 | Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 5 likes |
 | To create architecture is to create order. Put what in order? Function and objects. — Le Corbusier, 1887-1965, Swiss-French architect 1 likes |
 | Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. — Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American comedian 4 likes |
 | Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] (Blindness, 1995) 11 likes |
 | It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 9 likes |
 | A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth. — John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet 4 likes |
 | God is the place where I don’t remember the rest. |
 | — Pity the country that breeds no hero. — No, pity the country that needs heroes. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 15 likes |
 | Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos. |
 | Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
| What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 2 likes |
 | The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 3 likes |
 | Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. |
 | It is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behaviour. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | The criterion of “progress” between two cultures or two eras consists of a greater capacity to kill. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 7 likes |
 | The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist 9 likes |
 | Walking is man’s best medicine. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 4 likes |
 | The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | For Prudence, is but Experience; which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. — Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English philosopher 4 likes |
 | Public opinion is often a political force, and this force is not provided for by any constitution. |
 | Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 2 likes |
 | One day as I came home early from work, I saw a guy jogging naked. I said to the guy, “Hey buddy, why are you doing that?” He said, “Because you came home early.” — Rodney Dangerfield, 1924-2004, American comedian 8 likes |
| Man matures when he stops believing that politics solves his problems. |
 | Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass. — Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, American self-help writer 5 likes |
 | Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. |
 | An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 3 likes |
 | History proves that war is the usual state of mankind, that is, human blood must flow uninterruptedly on the globe. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator 1 likes |
