"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage." William Shakespeare
"I like the noise of democracy." James Buchanan
"The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith." James Anthony Froude
"I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise." Chauncey Depew
"The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?" Edwin Markham
"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out." Max Planck
"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects." Lester Bowles Pearson
"If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?" Art Hoppe
"I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own."
"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph." Shirley Temple
"Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise."
"I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire." Roy Orbison
"There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure." Victoria Glendinning
"Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence." Bernadette Devlin
"Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too." Joyce deWitt
"Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up."
"We're the only band that's got real communication between the stage and the audience. People know they can come and talk to us and pour beer over us, buy us a drink and spit at us." Raymond Burns
"Everybody complains that people are so flaky in LA. I'd rather be flaky than mean." Valerie Bertinelli