Away for Days

Take the day off, dear reader, and ignore the world and let the president play his fiddle. Find the one who means the most to you and make yourselves happy. If that be ignorance, make the most of it.

--Garrison Keillor

Confession

I confess, I do not believe in time.

--Vladimir Nabokov

Time Runs Out

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

--Oliver Wendell Holmes

Closed Doors

Democracies die behind closed doors.

--Damon J. Keith (Judge for the Sixth Circuit, United States Court of Appeals)

Kick Ass

Every good Christian should line up and kick Jerry Falwell's ass.

--Barry Goldwater (1981)

No Skill

If we are to be routinely misled by the government, could they at least do it with a modicum of skill?

--Marina Hyde

Violating All

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

--John Adams

Echo (Echo)

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

--Henri Louis Bergson

Sloppy Ways

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith--it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

--Robert A. Heinlein

If All Else...

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

--John Kenneth Galbraith

Open the Door

Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

--Rita Coolidge

Mexico Is Theirs

The country is theirs. Their liberty, if they can get it, is theirs, and so far as my influence goes while I am president, nobody shall interfere with them.

--Woodrow Wilson

Hiding Ourselves

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

--Henry Ward Beecher

China Will Astonish

China is a sleeping giant. Let her lie and sleep, for when she awakens she will astonish the world.

--Napoleon Bonaparte

Not All Bits

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

--Carl Sagan