“Never go with a hippie to a second location.” –Jack Donaghy
“One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” –Bertrand Russell
“Wawaweewa.” –Borat
“Where am I going, and why am I in this handbasket?” –Anon.
“Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk; then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man.” –John Henry Newman
“Few experiences so savor of the illicit as mounting stairs behind a woman’s fanny.” –John Updike
“Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.” –Walker Percy (1960!)
“I get my inspiration for songs from everyday things, and girls. Girls can misunderstand you so much, they really can. But it’s nice to have them around.” –Jimi Hendrix
“La vérité luit de sa propre lumière, et on n’éclaire pas les esprits avec les flammes des bûchers.” –Voltaire
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” –George Orwell
“La mer est puissante comme le désir et salée comme les larmes.” –Y. Moreau
“The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready.” –Thoreau
“Qui s’excuse s’accuse.” –Stendhal
“Your very civilization depends upon the carrying out of your laws in an orderly manner.” –Judge James E. Horton
“Garde tes amis près de toi et tes ennemis plus près encore.” –Jean-Claude Brialy
“Hâtons-nous de succomber à la tentation, avant qu’elle ne s’éloigne.” –Epicure
“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” –Ronald Reagan
“Art is the most beautiful of all lies.” –Claude Debussy
“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?” –Sir Toby Belch
“Unable to find anything either in women or men worthy of my adherence, I have turned to devote myself to the service of humanity.” –M.V. Petroshevsky
“Women killed Hungry Joe. His response to them as sexual beings was one of frenzied worship and idolatry. They were lovely, satisfying, maddening manifestations of the miraculous, instruments of pleasure too powerful to be measured, too keen to be endured, and too exquisite to be intended for employment by base, unworthy man. He could interpret their naked presence in his hands only as a cosmic oversight destined to be rectified speedily, and he was driven always to make what carnal use of them he could in the fleeting moment or two he felt he had before Someone caught wise and whisked them away.” –Joseph Heller
“Let me recite what history teaches: history teaches.” –Gertrude Stein
“Give me truths, for I am weary of the surfaces!” –Emerson
“That’s the trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.” –William Faulkner
“Beauty is everlasting and dust is for a time.” –Marianne Moore
“With primacy in power is also joined an awe-inspiring accountability to the future.” –Winston Churchill
“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.” –Sir Peter Ustinov
“The punishment of wise men who do not partake in the activities of government is to be ruled by a government of unwise men.” –Plato
“A lot of people said I couldn’t sing, but nobody can say that I didn’t.” –Florence Foster Jenkins
“Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it’s on fire.” –Bruce Sterling
