Quotes and Conundrums


"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

H. G. Wells


"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams."

Mary Ellen Kelly


"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

Dave Berry


"In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains."

King Stanislaus of Poland


"I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes."

Steven Wright


"History by apprising [citizens] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views."

Thomas Jefferson


"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst stage, an intolerable one."

Thomas Paine



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