Rodney Dangerfield on Sports
August 7th, 2008I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
- Rodney Dangerfield
Jonathan Swift on Life
August 7th, 2008May you live every day of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
Melvin Maddocks on Art
August 7th, 2008Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
- Melvin Maddocks
Harry S. Truman on History
August 7th, 2008The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.
- Harry S. Truman
Joyce Kilmer on Nature
August 6th, 2008I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
- Joyce Kilmer
Isaac Asimov on Science
August 6th, 2008There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
- Isaac Asimov
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on Love
August 6th, 2008Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Gustave Flaubert on Poetry
August 6th, 2008Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
- Gustave Flaubert
Richard M. Nixon on War
August 5th, 2008A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
- Richard M. Nixon
George William Curtis on Science
August 5th, 2008He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.
- George William Curtis
