"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."

Acton, Lord on Argument
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"But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions."

Homer on Argument
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"Great intellects are skeptical."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Skepticism
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"People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves."

Brouhours on Misfortunes
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"Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Beggars
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"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Religion
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"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Strategies
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"My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more."

Matthau, Walter on Doctors
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"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."

Zappa, Frank on Time and Time Management
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"Achievement is not the most important thing -- Authenticity is"

Unknown, Source on Integrity
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"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."

Antrim, Minna on Experience
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"We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities."

Maher, Bill on Responsibility
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"A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant."

Lyotard, Jean Francois on Modern and Modernism
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"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

Beaton, Sir Cecil on Courage
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"To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!"

Montapert, Alfred A. on Dreams
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"Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck."

Unknown, Source on Human Nature
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"The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture."

Paglia, Camille on Prostitution
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"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."

Swift, Jonathan on Blush
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"So do not think of helpful whores as aberrational blots; I could not love you half so well without my practice shots."

Simmons, James Stewart Alexander on Prostitution
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"Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth."

Gregory, Dick on Civil Rights
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"The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder."

Carter, Angela on Prostitution
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"What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin."

Adler, Polly on Prostitution
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"Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe."

Leary, Denis on Life and Living
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"If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to allexcept the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty. "

Kennedy, John F. on Uncategorised
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"The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth."

Adler, Polly on Prostitution
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"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."

Washington, Booker T. on Excellence
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"When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

Carver, George Washington on Fame
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"Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well."

Unknown, Source on Success
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"Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up."

Chandler, Raymond on Common Sense
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"The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas."

Powers, Melvin on Excellence
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"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on Insanity
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"Insanity destroys reason, but not wit."

Emmons, Nathaniel on Insanity
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"I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people."

Erasmus, Desiderius on Insanity
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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

Levant, Oscar on Insanity
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"Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."

Dement, William on Dreams
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"Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history."

Camus, Albert on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent."

Anderson, Gillian on Intelligence and Intellectuals
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"Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now."

Twain, Mark on Insanity
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"When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isnt a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. "

Clemenceau, Georges on Uncategorised
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"Burning lies led to my silent cries Keeping it inside I've got everything to hide. lustful desire, a burning fire You are the flame, You are to blame. Beautiful light deliver me from fright dreams full of lust. Or is the dream dreaming us? PHYSICAL PAIN don't call me insane. I don't want to be dead but all beautiful colors bleed to red"

Unknown, Source on Lies and Lying
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