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Political correctness is tyranny with manners. (Charlton Heston)

I have nothing to declare except my genius. (Oscar Wildeupon arriving at U.S. customs 1882)

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. (A. J. Liebling)

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. (Voltaire)

I think ‘Hail to the Chief’ has a nice ring to it. (John F. Kennedywhen asked what is his favorite song)

If you are going through hell, keep going. (Sir Winston Churchill)

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. (Voltaire)

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. (Rene Descartes, Discours de la Methode)

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. (Carl Sagan)

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. (Voltaire)

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. (Saint Augustine)

Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. (George Burns)

I think ‘Hail to the Chief’ has a nice ring to it. (John F. Kennedywhen asked what is his favorite song)

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. (Voltaire)

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. (Ambrose Bierce)

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. (Paul Erdos)

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. (definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)