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- In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Life changed after that jump...I'd suddenly stepped to the highest level of daring, a level above even that which airplane pilots could attain.
- Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974), describing his first skydive
- I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
- J. Edgar Hoover
- When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it and didn't inhale and never tried it again.
- Gov. Bill Clinton
- Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.
- Carl G. Jung, in the introduction to Frances G. Wickes' "Analysis der Kinderseele" (The Inner World of Childhood), 1931
- Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
- Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)
- The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
- I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
- The enemy came. He was beaten. I am tired. Goodnight.
- Vicomte Turenne, Message sent after the battle of Dunen, 658
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