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- In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.
- Tom Wicker
- The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
- At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.
- Jerry Brown
- The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
- Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
- Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
- E.M. Cioran
- Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.
- Hannah Moore
- What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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