I don’t hate my enemies. After all, I made ‘em.
- Red Skelton
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
- Isaac Asimov
It is by the grace of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence to practice neither.
- Mark Twain
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
- Woody Allen
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
- Sydney J. Harris
If a homological adjective is one that is true of itself, e.g., “polysyllabic”, and a heterological adjective is one which is not true of itself, e.g., “bisyllabic”, the what about “heterological”? Is it heterological or not?
- Grelling’s Paradox
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
- Emo Phillips
11/26/99:
Nothing kills inspiration like a good game of solitaire.
Only presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial “we”.
- Mark Twain