Quote (#558)

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid,
but most stupid people are conservative."
- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

"I like to play poker with politicians. They’re
easy to beat. Sometimes in poker it’s smarter to
lose with a winning hand so that you can win later
with a losing hand. Politicians can’t accept that."
- Havana (1990)

"The worst part about politics is that you're
always right and no one ever knows it."
- Unknown

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare,
terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo,
Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they
had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy
and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock."
- Orson Welles (1915-1985)

"Its not the size of the dog in the fight,
its the size of the fight in the dog."
- Mark Twain

"When the only tool you own is a hammer,
every problem begins to resemble a nail."
- Abraham Maslow

Quotes

"I'm thirty years old, but I read at
the thirty-four-year-old level."
- Dana Carvey

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to
make the world signify, to render it visible.
We are not, however, in danger of lacking
meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged
with meaning and it is killing us.
- Jean Baudrillard

One of the characteristics of the dream is that
nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we
agree to live in it with strangers, completely
cut off from our habits and friends.
- Jean Cocteau

The amount of eccentricity in a society has
generally been proportional to the amount of
genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it
contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric
marks the chief danger of the time.
- John Stuart Mill

Your manuscript is both good and original,
but the part that is good is not original
and the part that is original is not good.
- Samuel Johnson

Kitty Pryde: "Impossible."
Logan: "If that's what you believe, girl, then it always will be."
Kitty Pryde: "Gimme a break! You're too tall -- an' too darn ugly --
to be Yoda."
- X-Men (Kitty Pryde and Wolverine 4)