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- The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.
- Eduard Hanslick
- The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.
- The Tribune, Berlin, 1871
- He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal
- The National, Paris, 1850
- Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
- A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
- Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.
- Ralph Nader (1934 - ), The Pacific Sun, March 21, 1981
- Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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