Assasination:
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
--George Bernard ShawBank:
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
--Robert FrostCity:
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
--Herber ProchnowCommunity:
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
--Henrik IbsenComputer :
A million morons working at the speed of light.
--David FerrierConscience:
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
--H. L. MenckenConversation:
Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.
--Ralph Waldo EmersonConversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
--Andre MauroisConservaion should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitesness, novel without falsehood.
--William ShakespeareGood-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
--Joseph AddisonIf to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
--Baltasar GracianWhoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
--Sa'DiDemocracy:
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
--Laurance PeterDiplomat:
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
--Robert FrostDrama:
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
--Alfred HitchcockEconomist:
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
--Laurence J. PeterExpert:
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
--Niels BohrAn expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
--Nicholas Murray ButlerFriend:
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
--AristotleFriendship is like money, easier made than kept.
--Samuel ButlerGambling:
The sure way of getting nothing for something.
--Wilson MiznerGovernment:
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite on one end and no sense of responsibility on the other.
--Ronald ReganHistory:
Is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
--NapoleonJury:
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
--Robert FrostKnowledge:
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
--ConfuciusEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
--Will DurantLove:
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
--H. L. MenckenObstacles:
Are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
--Hannah MoreOriginality:
Is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
--Laurance PeterPolitician:
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
--H.L.MenckenPrayer:
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
--Mahatma GandhiCertain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
--Victor hugoI don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
--Mark TwainThe prayers of an old man are the only contributions left in his power.
--Thomas JeffersonThe enthusiasm of prayer is likewise a mystery between man and God; like modesty it casts a veil over thought and and hides from men what is meant for heaven.
--Alphonse De LamartinePractical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
--Austin O'MalleyFor whatever high reasons, men of prayer must knock and knock -- sometimes with bleeding knuckles in the dark.
--George A. ButtrickIt is not well for a man to pray cream, and live skim milk.
--Hariot Ward BeecherPray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.
--Francis Cardinal SpellmanThere is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him. ... By considering yourself as an advocate with God for your neighbors and acquaintances, you would never find it hard to be at peace with them yourself.
--William LawThe fewer words the better prayer.
--Martin LutherPrayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
--Mahatma GandhiReligion:
Religion... is the opium of the masses.
--Karl MarxTeacher:
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
--Thomas CarruthersTelevision:
A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.
--Ernie KovacsVengence:
Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
--JuvenalThe best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
--Jane PorterRetribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.
--Eric HofferHeat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.
--William ShakespeareRevenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen.
--Emile GarboriauRevenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
--Joseph Joubert