The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,Painter or plumber or never-do-well,Do me a favor and shut your face -Poets alone should kiss and tell.

Dorothy Parker

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

George Jackson

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Lord Chesterfield

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

Bob Etheridge

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.

Ellen Hopkins

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ;and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

Josef Stalin

I think it's real easy to be famous these days it's not real easy to sustain success.

Jerry Jeff Walker

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire.

Quintilian

You perceive the force of a word. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. I donhttp://www.bartleby.com/237/8.html

Joseph Conrad, Preface to A Pers