Random Quotes
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What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.Henry David Thoreau
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.Hasidic Saying
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.Hannah Moore
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.E.M. Cioran
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.Samuel Johnson
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.Victor Borge
At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.Jerry Brown
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.Gustave Flaubert
Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.Tom Wicker