
“Most of us spend the first 6 days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.” — Fred Allen
“Most of us spend the first 6 days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.” — Fred Allen
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Even though you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there” — Will Rogers
“It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.” — H.L. […]
“I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.” — Jack Paar
“TV – a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium – we call it a medium because nothing’s well done.” — Goodman Ace
“You can fool some of the people some of the time — and that’s enough to make a decent living.” — W.C. Fields
“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.” — Charles de Gaulle
Author Orson Scott Card summed up the shortsightedness of much of the electorate. He said, “If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no […]
The ultimate test of a comedian’s greatness is the timelessness of his or her humor. Has there ever been a time when Bob Hope’s observation about politics wasn’t true? “I don’t do […]
“The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.” — Robert A. Heinlein
Albert Einstein accomplished so much and influenced so much more that it is sometimes hard to separate the man from the myth. It is also difficult to reconcile that the brain that […]
Few people have ever commanded such a mastery of the English language as Winston Churchill. He labored over his speeches and writing, carefully selecting just the right words in just the right […]
Few people came to political life with a quicker wit than Adlai Stevenson II (1900-1965). He made his mark in politics as governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 and received the […]
Sir Winston Churchill was a master of the English language and greatly appreciated the effectiveness of a carefully-edited work. He was famous for emphasizing the need for brevity in all of his […]