The Last Word

Sunday, June 12, 2005

The great thing about family life is that it introduces you to people you'd never otherwise meet.
—Christopher Hitchens

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
—Edward Abbey

I still live.
—Last words of Daniel Webster

There is no god, and Richard Dawkins is his prophet.
—Anonymous

Every man's last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last, that is the labor for the brave.
—Vergil

The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too?...if you 'see through' everything, then everything is transparent. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.
—C.S. Lewis

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
—Alexander Haig

There are certain freedoms that are like circuses. Their very existence, so long as they are individual and enjoyed chiefly individually as by spectators, diverts men's mind from the loss of other, more fundamental, social and economic and political rights.
—Robert Nisbet

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
— Albert Einstein

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
—Oscar Wilde

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
—Richard Nixon

Now listen, you queer, you stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in the goddamn face.
—Bill Buckley to Gore Vidal

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
—Charles De Gaulle

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
—Thomas Aquinas

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
—Richard Dawkins

Q. Do you think anybody back then was thinking this guy would become a cult figure, that he might be more trouble dead than alive?
A. No, nobody had the foresight for that. What I thought was great foresight was that the Bolivian colonel had Che's hands cut off.
—E. Howard Hunt, on Che Guevara

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
—Jack Kerouac

It can't end like this. Tell them I said something.
—Last words of Pancho Villa

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
—Pablo Picasso

'Pon my honour, Wilkes, I don't know whether you'll die on the gallows or of the pox.
—The Earl of Sandwich

That must depend, my Lord, upon whether I first embrace your Lordship's principles or your Lordship's mistresses.
—John Wilkes

Read in order to live.
—Gustave Flaubert

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
—Winston Churchill

America is a country of young men.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Last Word

Article Tools

Related Articles