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- Impiety, noun. Your irreverence toward my deity.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
- E.M. Cioran
- Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.
- Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR
- I want to gain 1,500 or 2,000 yards, whichever comes first.
- George Rogers, Saints running back
- Who will relieve me of this Wuthering Height
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.
- Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
- Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
- David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)
- Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
- Dalton Camp
- People ask me if I've ever been called a Nazi. I answer that no one has ever had dreams of being tied down and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal.
- P.J. O'Rourke
- A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
- Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953)
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