The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles? ~John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1815
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
If you do not agree with the prevalent point of view, be ready to explain why. ~Martin H. Fischer
Life is one long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks
Life, not the parson, teaches conduct. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
That son of a bitch was able to hole a putt over 60 feet of peanut brittle. ~Lloyd Mangrum, about Bobby Locke
All deities reside in the human breast. ~William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. ~James H. Boren
Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. ~H.L. Mencken
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. ~Edward Abbey
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners - let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. ~Aldous Huxley
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. ~Horace
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. ~Grant Wood
Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. ~Catherine O'Hara
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. ~James Russell Lowell
Sex is the great amateur art. The professional, male or female, is frowned on: he or she misses the point, and spoils the show. ~David Cort
I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I'm thinking, okay, here's a gal who's capable of making a decision she'll regret in the future. ~Richard Jeni
For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one. ~William McElcheran
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. ~Norman Douglas, South Wind
The first sip of tea is the always the best... you cringe as it burns the back of your throat, knowing you just had the hottest carpe-diem portion. ~Terri Guillemets
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays
A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. ~Jo Godwin
We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. ~Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present
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