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Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Simms


Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley
English administrator & biologist (1887 - 1975)


We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)


Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham
English conductor (1879 - 1961)


I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock
Canadian economist & humorist (1869 - 1944)


The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

Scott Adams
US cartoonist (1957 - )


An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Simon Cameron
US financier & politician (1799 - 1889)


The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad

Salvador Dali
Spanish Catalan Surrealist painter (1904 - 1989)


He who lives by the sword, will eventually be wiped out by some bastard with a sawn off shotgun

Steady Eddy


If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Stanley Garn


Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

Samuel Goldwyn
US (Polish-born) movie producer (1882 - 1974)


My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Stephen Hawking
English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - )


We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking
English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - )


It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Sir Edmund Hillary


I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Sir Laurence Olivier


If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?

Steven Wright
US comedian and actor (1955 - )


If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Steven Wright
US comedian and actor (1955 - )


If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

Steven Wright
US comedian and actor (1955 - )


Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

Suzanne Necker
(1739 - 1794)


Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil
French social philosopher (1909 - 1943)




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