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
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
