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- To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world.
- Werner Herzog
- If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.
- Soichiro Honda
- 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 - )
- 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)
- For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.
- Herbert Schiller
- Can women imagine anything finer than to experience centuries and millennia with the beloved husband in a cozy home in reverent attention to the inner workings of creative motherhood?
- Curt Rosten, "The ABC's of National Socialism," 1933
- I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
- Adela Rogers St.John
- Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
- Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)
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