Quotes

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country
we have those three unspeakably precious things:
freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the
prudence never to practice either of them."
- Mark Twain

"He played the king as if afraid
someone else would play the ace."
- John Mason Brown

I can't understand why a person will take
a year to write a novel when he can easily
buy one for a few dollars.
- Fred Allen

A nation is a society united by delusions about its
ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
- William Ralph Inge

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor;
but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable,
more people would be content to be ignorant than would
take even a little trouble to acquire it.
- Samuel Johnson

We've heard that a million monkeys
at a million keyboards could produce
the complete works of Shakespeare;
now, thanks to the Internet, we
know that is not true.
- Robert Wilensky