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- If I traveled to the end of the rainbow As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me The pot's at the other end.
- Bert Whitney
- A ship in harbor is safe--- but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
- Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
- La Rochefoucauld
- Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A man with his belly full of the classics is an enemy of the human race.
- Henery Miller, Tropic of Cancer 1934
- (Of Jesus): "A parish demogogue."
- Shelley (Queen Mab)
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
- John Updike (1932 - )
- A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
- Max Weinreich
- I can't seem to bring myself to say, "Well, I guess I'll be toddling along." It isn't that I can't toddle. It's that I can't guess I'll toddle.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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