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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him. George Orwell

In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner. Henry Miller

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. Matt Groening

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. Matt Groening

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. Orrin Hatch

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson

Hypocrisy is the Vaseline of social intercourse. J.R. Newman

Grub first: then ethics. Bertolt Brecht

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. H.L. Mencken

The opponents in the American civil war are cutting each other's throats because one half of them prefer hiring their servants for life and the other by the hour. Thomas Carlyle

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. Napoleon Bonaparte

Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken. Isabel Allende

Character is much easier kept than recovered. Thomas Paine

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to. Mark Twain

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labour, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. Robert Browning

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. George Carlin

Virtue is insufficient temptation. George Bernard Shaw

Dan Piraro's Bizzaro

Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble questions. Henry Brooks Adams

Nothing is worse than majority, it consists of a few leaders, some rouges who adapts, the weak who assimilates, and the great masses who follows far behind, knowing not what they want. Goethe

There is still this difference between man and all other animals - he is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. Henry George

Mans is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. Albert Schweitzer

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. Spike Milligan

Money can't buy you friends, but you do get a better class of enemy. Spike Milligan

Nothing dispels enthusiasm like a small admission fee. Kin Hubbard

If someone says "it's not the money, it's the principle," it's the money. Angelo Valenti

Mr Justice Phillimore was trying a sodomy case and brooded greatly whether his judgement had been right. He went to consult Birkenhead. 'Excuse me, my lord, but could you tell me – What do you think one ought to give a man who allows himself to be buggered?' 'Oh, 30s or £2 – anything you happen to have on you.’ The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, 11 July 1924

There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having money in the bank. Tom Robbins

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Spike Milligan

I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now. Graffito, London