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- Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
My hand, though now my knuckles bleed,
I never soiled with such a deed. - A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)
- If we weren't all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.
- Garry Trudeau (1948 - )
- An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
- Finley Peter Dunne (1867 - 1936)
- The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- Politics is largely a matter of heart.
- R. A. Butler (1902 - 1982)
- I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.
- Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
- As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.
- Bill Watterson (1958 - ), The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, 2005, Introduction
- Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
- Professor Irwin Corey (1914 - )
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