I do not believe… Evelyn Waugh
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
Evelyn Waugh
English novelist & satirist (1903 - 1966)
February 29th, 2008 - Posted in Evelyn Waugh | | 0 Comments
Canada is a country… Richard Benner
Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.
Richard Benner
February 28th, 2008 - Posted in Richard Benner | | 0 Comments
Examine each… Aldo Leopold
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Aldo Leopold
February 27th, 2008 - Posted in Aldo Leopold | | 0 Comments
Women want mediocre… Margaret Mead
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
Margaret Mead
US anthropologist & popularizer of anthropology (1901 - 1978)
February 26th, 2008 - Posted in Margaret Mead | | 0 Comments
What once were… Seneca
What once were vices are manners now.
Seneca
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD)
February 25th, 2008 - Posted in Seneca | | 0 Comments
By definition, a… Albert Camus
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus
French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960)
February 24th, 2008 - Posted in Albert Camus | | 0 Comments
A misery is not to… Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Joseph Addison
English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 - 1719)
February 23rd, 2008 - Posted in Joseph Addison | | 0 Comments
The best hope is… Kenneth Patchen
The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.
Kenneth Patchen
February 22nd, 2008 - Posted in Kenneth Patchen | | 0 Comments
Our land is more… Blackfoot chief
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.
Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
February 21st, 2008 - Posted in Blackfoot chief | | 0 Comments
I know not, sir… J.M. Barrie
I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
J.M. Barrie
February 20th, 2008 - Posted in J.M. Barrie | | 0 Comments
Crude, immoral,… Leo Tolstoy
Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless.
Leo Tolstoy
Russian mystic & novelist (1828 - 1910)
February 19th, 2008 - Posted in Leo Tolstoy | | 0 Comments
The remarkable… Robert Graves
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Robert Graves
British author & classical scholar (1895 - 1985)
February 18th, 2008 - Posted in Robert Graves | | 0 Comments
Not everybody has… Pete Seeger
Not everybody has to sing the melody.
Pete Seeger
February 17th, 2008 - Posted in Pete Seeger | | 0 Comments
In the modern… John Berger
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
John Berger
February 16th, 2008 - Posted in John Berger | | 0 Comments
A man cannot be… Mark Twain
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
February 15th, 2008 - Posted in Mark Twain | | 0 Comments
A country which… Aldous Huxley
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
Aldous Huxley
English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963)
February 14th, 2008 - Posted in Aldous Huxley | | 0 Comments
Every day people… Lenny Bruce
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
Lenny Bruce
(1923 - 1966)
February 14th, 2008 - Posted in Lenny Bruce | | 0 Comments
What grape to keep… Cyril Connolly
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
Cyril Connolly
(1903 - 1974)
February 13th, 2008 - Posted in Cyril Connolly | | 0 Comments
The scenery in the… Alexander Woollcott
The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.
Alexander Woollcott
US author (1887 - 1943)
February 13th, 2008 - Posted in Alexander Woollcott | | 0 Comments
Man is the only… Mark Twain
Man is the only animal that blushes — or needs to.
Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
February 13th, 2008 - Posted in Mark Twain | | 0 Comments
Class is material… John Trudell
Class is material consumed.
John Trudell
February 12th, 2008 - Posted in John Trudell | | 0 Comments
Screenwriters?… Jack Warner
Screenwriters? Schmucks with Underwoods.
Jack Warner
February 12th, 2008 - Posted in Jack Warner | | 0 Comments
Women who seek to… Timothy Leary
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary
US psychologist & promoter of mind-altering drugs (1920 - 1996)
February 12th, 2008 - Posted in Timothy Leary | | 0 Comments
One watches them on… D. H. Lawrence
One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away.
D. H. Lawrence
English novelist (1885 - 1930)
February 11th, 2008 - Posted in D. H. Lawrence | | 0 Comments
Spring makes… Katherine Whitehorn
Spring makes everything look filthy.
Katherine Whitehorn
February 11th, 2008 - Posted in Katherine Whitehorn | | 0 Comments
Some of us are… Gloria Steinem
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
Gloria Steinem
US feminist (1934 - )
February 11th, 2008 - Posted in Gloria Steinem | | 0 Comments
The greatest… Andre Malraux
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
Andre Malraux
French author & resistance leader (1901 - 1976)
February 10th, 2008 - Posted in Andre Malraux | | 0 Comments
We must use time as… John F. Kennedy
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
John F. Kennedy
US Democratic politician (1917 - 1963)
February 10th, 2008 - Posted in John F Kennedy | | 0 Comments
Men and women,… Erica Jong
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Erica Jong
February 10th, 2008 - Posted in Erica Jong | | 0 Comments
When vultures… David Brower
When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder.
David Brower
February 9th, 2008 - Posted in David Brower | | 0 Comments
Conscience and… Oscar Wilde
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.
Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
February 9th, 2008 - Posted in Oscar Wilde | | 0 Comments
Life being what it… Paul Gauguin
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Paul Gauguin
French Post-Impressionist painter (1848 - 1903)
February 9th, 2008 - Posted in Paul Gauguin | | 0 Comments
Newspapers should… Joseph Pulitzer
Newspapers should have no friends.
Joseph Pulitzer
February 8th, 2008 - Posted in Joseph Pulitzer | | 0 Comments
The Irish are a… Samuel Johnson
The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another.
Samuel Johnson
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)
February 8th, 2008 - Posted in Samuel Johnson | | 0 Comments
It is not true that… Edna St. Vincent Millay
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it is one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
US poet (1892 - 1950)
February 8th, 2008 - Posted in Edna St. Vincent Millay | | 0 Comments
As long as I am an… Elija Lovejoy
As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.
Elija Lovejoy
February 7th, 2008 - Posted in Elija Lovejoy | | 0 Comments
I showed my… George Bernard Shaw
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
February 7th, 2008 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments
Life is a… Theodore Dreiser
Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.
Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper editor
February 7th, 2008 - Posted in Theodore Dreiser | | 0 Comments
Golf is a game in… Samuel Johnson
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
Samuel Johnson
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)
February 6th, 2008 - Posted in Samuel Johnson | | 0 Comments
The danger is not… Lord Acton
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton
February 6th, 2008 - Posted in Lord Acton | | 0 Comments
Life is nothing but… Bertrand Russell
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)
February 6th, 2008 - Posted in Bertrand Russell | | 0 Comments
The Art of Love:… E.M. Cioran
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
E.M. Cioran
February 5th, 2008 - Posted in E.M. Cioran | | 0 Comments
We should all be… George Bernard Shaw
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence…on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
February 5th, 2008 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments
Contraceptives… From The Last Goon Show of All
Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.
From The Last Goon Show of All
February 5th, 2008 - Posted in From The Last Goon Show of All | | 0 Comments
Man is only… Jacopo Sannazaro
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro
February 4th, 2008 - Posted in Jacopo Sannazaro | | 0 Comments
Very few things… Herodotus
Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Herodotus
Greek historian & traveler (484 BC - 430 BC)
February 4th, 2008 - Posted in Herodotus | | 0 Comments
It is now quite… H. L. Mencken
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)
February 4th, 2008 - Posted in H. L. Mencken | | 0 Comments
Marriage is a… H. L. Mencken
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)
February 3rd, 2008 - Posted in H. L. Mencken | | 0 Comments
We learn from… Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
February 3rd, 2008 - Posted in Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel | | 0 Comments
Somewhere on this… Sam Levenson
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Sam Levenson
(1911 - 1980)
February 3rd, 2008 - Posted in Sam Levenson | | 0 Comments