"They that govern the most, make least noise."
John Selden(12/16/1584 – 11/30/1654)
English jurist
"Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside."
Ludwig van Beethoven
"Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition."
Jane Austen
"She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever."
Mary Russell Mitford
"It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true."
George Santayana
"An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance. Almost dull, in fact. In reality, however, [it's] crammed with thousands of undertone tensions and [is] full of expectancy. Slightly apprehensive lest it should be outraged... It can contain anything but cannot sustain everything... An empty canvas is a living wonder—far lovelier than certain pictures."
Wassily Kandinsky
"I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere."
Sir Noel Coward
"The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great best-sellers."
V. S. Pritchett
"Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible."
Margaret Mead
"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."
Sir Arthur C. Clarke
"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
Philip K. Dick
"Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly."
Billy Gibbons
"Ever notice that people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved?"
Bill Hicks
"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it."
W. Somerset Maugham
"Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor."
Colonel Harland Sanders
"I'll never kick dogs, I'll never hurt a child, I'll never slap a woman—three things I won't do on film."
Lee Van Cleef
"It is the doom of men that they forget."
Nicol Williamson