We will not have peace by afterthought.
Norman Cousins |
If you want peace, you must work for justice.
Pope Paul VI |
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeanette Rankin |
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
James Baldwin |
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
Steven Wright |
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus |
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan |
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John F Kennedy |
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
The trouble with law is lawyers.
Clarence Darrow |
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo |
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
Buck Henry |
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith |
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Simon Cameron |
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
Dorothy Parker |
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan |
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher |
The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin.
Heinrich Heine |
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Robert A. Heinlein |
A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.
Marty Allen |
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
Alfred A. Knopf |
Every crowd has a silver lining.
P.T. Barnum |
I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.
Tammy Faye Bakker |
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
Bob Newhart |
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams |
If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes.
Robert Redford |
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Cecil Baxter |
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter |
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
Tom Stoppard |
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle |
I do not fear computers, I fear lack of them.
Isaac Asimov |
I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs |
I'm Chevy Chase and you're not.
Chevy Chase |
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson |
A celebrity is anyone who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.
Steve Martin |
I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
Jack Benny |
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler |
Someday each of us will be famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol |
Few great men would have got past personnel.
Paul Goodman |
People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
Howard Newton |
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Peter De Vries |
No good deed goes unpunished.
Clare Booth Luce |
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W Somerset Maugham |
If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
Dean Martin |
I am a drinker with writing problems.
Brendan Behan |
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck |
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde |
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
JRR Tolkien |
Never assume the obvious is true.
William Safire |
Gentlemen prefer bonds.
Andrew Mellon |
