"Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world." William Penn
"Alas! regardless of their doom,
The little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come
Nor care beyond today."
"All children are essentially criminal." Denis Diderot
"Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made." Otto von Bismarck
"For nothing keeps a poet
In his high singing mood
Like unappeasable hunger
For unattainable food."
Joyce Kilmer
"I don't need bodyguards." Jimmy Hoffa
"Composers shouldn't think too much—it interferes with their plagiarism."
"I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally." Lillie Louise Fontanne
"If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die." Lily Claudette Chauchoin
"I hope I never get so old I get religious." Ingmar Bergman