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Friday, January 23, 2004

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.
—Bertrand Russell

If I drink water I will have to go to the bathroom and how can I use the bathroom when my people are in bondage?
—Saddam Hussein

Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed and in hell where they've got it.
—Cecil Palmer

I can remember way back when a liberal was someone who was generous with his own money.
—Will Rogers

Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O' Neill.
-—Ronald Reagan on Pac-Man

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.
—Theodore Roosevelt

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
—William Penn

I must be getting old because nowadays I find I'm more interested in the food I eat than the girl who serves it.
—John Steinbeck

You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.
—Bill Clinton

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
—Leo Tolstoy

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
—Victor Hugo

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
—Winston Churchill

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
—Sinclair Lewis

When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.
—Thomas Edison

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
—Otto von Bismarck

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
—Aldous Huxley

No sane man will dance.
—Cicero

I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.
—Herbert Hoover

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
—Heywood Broun

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
—Stephen Hawking

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
—W.C. Fields

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

When business accepts help from the government, it can be like going to bed with a hippopotamus. It's nice and warm for a moment, but then your bedmate rolls over and crushes you.
—Donald Rumsfeld

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
—Henry Ward Beecher

I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
—Alexandre Dumas the Younger

Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not made at all.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

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