"It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them." - Charles Caleb Colton

"You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men." - MAX BEERBOHM, Zuleika Dobson

"If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas." - JEAN COCTEAU, Cock and Harlequin

"'It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.'
'But supppose there are two mobs?' suggested Mr. Snodgrass.
'Shout with the largest,' replied Mr. Pickwick."
- CHARLES DICKENS, Pickwick Papers

"The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Society and Solitude

"Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions." - D.H. LAWRENCE, Pornography and Obscenity

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925- ) on a popular restaurant

"Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything." - Gardner, Herb