All Quotes
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The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.H. L. Mencken
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.Karl Kraus
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.Anatole France
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.I.F. Stone
Communism is like one big phone company.Lenny Bruce
Destiny...is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achievedWilliam Jennings Bryan
Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.Edmund Burke
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.Oscar Wilde
The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.Richard Bach
