All Quotes
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In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.H. L. Mencken
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.Confucius
Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing.Cicero
I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.William S. Buroughs, Paris Review, Fall 1965
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.H. L. Mencken
Trapped, like a trap in a trap.Dorothy Parker
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.Churchill
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups.Clark Coleman
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.Tolkien