[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please and if you are a poor man, whenever you can., Diogenes the Cynic, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, (412 BC 323 BC)
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it., Ronald Knox,
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial., Charles Baudelaire, French poet (1821 1867)
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans., Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR,