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- You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
- Charles Austin Beard (1874 - 1948)
- It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
- The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Satchel Paige (1906 - 1982)
- People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.
- Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 07-07-06
- Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
- Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks, 07-10-2001
- To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.
- Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 07-15-06
- I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
- Ann Richards
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