QUOTES
"Ignorance is a powerful tool."
E.J. Potter
"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."
Shakespeare
"She moves better on wine."
Corky Laing and Leslie West
"Get me more lucky generals"
Lincoln
"Sometimes I will, then again I think I won't
Sometimes I do, then again I think I don't"
Chuck Berry
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
Churchill
“Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops”
H.L. Mencken
"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."
Mark Twain
"It's astonishing how far some people can get just by being unreasonable."
Artunis Farkarian
"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."
Shakespeare
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike."
Delos B. McKown
“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”
Confucious
"There's always work for bass players. There's a million people can play drums."
Charlie Watts
"Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."
Unknown
"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
George Orwell
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
Oscar Wilde
"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."
W. Somerset Maugham
"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."
Theodore Roosevelt
" A friend of mine has a trophy wife, but apparently it wasn't first place."
Steven Wright
"OF COURSE the gentleman has a major credit card!"
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
"There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'"
"The mood will pass, sir."
P.G. Wodehouse The Code of the Woosters
"The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles"
Bob Dylan Subterranean Homesick Blues
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
George Orwell
''I get up in the mornin', I go to the barber, I go to the track and the day is shot.''
Lucky Luciano
"Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized
the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is
wrong."
E.L. Mencken
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Lincoln
“Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth.”
Mike Tyson
"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."
Confucius
"In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out."
William Tecumseh Sherman
"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
George Bernard Shaw
"Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen."
Little Richard
"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
"Man, it's better than chicken fried in bacon grease."
Don Raye Down The Road Apiece
I've Been to Nagasaki; Hiroshima too. The same I did to them, babe, I can do to you.
Wanda Jackson Earl Burroughs' Fujiyama Mama
"There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry."
George Armstrong Custer
"Man will not fly for fifty years."
Wilbur Wright, 1901
"Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
Irving Fisher, Yale Economics Professor, October 1929
"I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young."
Fidel Castro, 1967
"...a 'bubble' in home prices for the nation as a whole does not appear likely..."
Alan Greenspan, 2005
"The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession."
Ben Bernanke, January 2008
"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going."
Professor Irwin Corey
"I'm gonna call up China."
Elmore James Dust My Broom
"Free your mind and your ass will follow."
George Clinton
"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I don't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
Mark Twain
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to
the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his
children smart."
E.L. Mencken
"Cut out the lights... and call the law"
James Brown Funky Drummer
"Love is not love, which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove."
Shakespeare Sonnet 116
"People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like."
Abraham Lincoln, in a book review
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
Mark Twain
"Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless.
Dave Barry
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