"I am the Roman emperor, and am above grammar."
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use." Galileo Galilei
"As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends." Jeremy Bentham
"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less." Susan Bromwell Anthony
"Men do not fail; they give up trying." Elihu Root
"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in literature." Alfred North Whitehead
John Barrymore
"You don't develop good teeth by eating mush."
Millicent Fenwick
"English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists."
"Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment." Clare Short
"A viable alternative to Valium."
  • Ira Siff
    (02/15/1946 – )
    US singer, on opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
"Samuel Beckett once said: 'Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.' On the other hand, he SAID it."
"Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life." Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg
"I pledge impertinence to the flag waving, of the unindicted co-conspirators of America, and to the republicans for which I can't stand, one abomination, underhanded fraud, indefensible, with Liberty and Justice... Forget it." Matt Groening
"In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king." Christopher Crosby Farley