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- The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen, and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean that you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
- Jules Feiffer (1929 - )
- That's a hell of an ambition, to be mellow. It's like wanting to be senile.
- Randy Newman on middle of the road music
- Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
- You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.
- William Randolph Hearst, to Frederic Remington
- He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.
- Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president
- So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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