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- It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons.
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
- The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.
- Louis Ferdinand Celine
- It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
- Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
- California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.
- William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Virtue is insufficient temptation.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
- Abbie Hoffman (1936 - 1989), Steal This Urine Test
- I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.
- William F. Buckley Jr.
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