"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."
Henry Ward Beecher(06/24/1813 – 03/08/1887)
US writer
"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."
Henry Ward Beecher
"While the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough. Whitman was, from first to last, a boorish, awkward poseur."
Rebecca Harding Davis
"There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy."
Ambrose Bierce
"Honey, I just forgot to duck."
Jack Dempsey
"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours."
Grover Cleveland
"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards."
Sir Fred Hoyle
"The Constitution gives every American the right to make a damn fool of himself."
John Ciardi
"There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in rehearsed snarls; their hair studiously unkempt and matted; their clothes part of some private conceit; and the way they walk and talk and the songs they sing all become part of some long mean reach for the jugular."
Pete Hamill
"I don't like animals on me, unless I specifically put them there."
Molly Morris
"The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it."
Jackie Gleason
"In other words...you can't be a misogynist and expect women to appreciate you. "
Brian Keith