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- When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960), Nods and Becks (1944)
- Abbott: Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.
Costello: That's what I want to find out. - Bud Abbott (1895 - 1974), and Lou Costello, Naughty Nineties, 1943 film
- The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.
- Art Linkletter (1912 - ), "A Child's Garden of Misinformation", 1965
- The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
- Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980), "Gutenberg Galaxy", 1962
- The medium is the message.
- Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980), "Understanding Media", 1964
- Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007), "Esquire", June 1960
- Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
- Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)
- In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
- John Masefield (1878 - 1967), "Window in Bye Street", 1912
- Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), "Of Human Bondage", 1915
- My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light. - Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920
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