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Mark Twain:

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

John Maynard Keynes, from the Quotemaster:

A ‘sound’ banker, alas! is not one who sees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

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Old baseball umpire saying, via my brother, who’s umpired little league, amateur, and scholastic ball for four decades:

Punish stupidity whenever possible.

Frank Moore Colby, from the Quotemaster.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

George Bernard Shaw, from the Quotemaster:

We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

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Mark Twain:

There is a Moral Sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables us to perceive immorality and how to enjoy it.

Alfred E. Wiggam:

A conservative is a man who believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Art Linkletter, from the Quotemaster. Growing up in the olden days, we watched Art Linkletter’s House Party almost every afternoon.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

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John Kenneth Galbraith from the Quotemaster:

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

Letter to the Editor in the Boston Globe:

IF AL Qaeda had done to the Louisiana coast what BP has done, what would be our government’s and our people’s response?

Bennett Cerf (from whom this blog gets its motto) via the Quotemaster:

Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States, not only knows, but has talked about at length in school, or on the way home from school.

Teddy Roosevelt, from the Quotemaster:

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

P. J. O’Rourke from the Quotemaster:

Majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But – like other precious, sacred things, such as the home and the family – it’s not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stonewashed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And – since women are a majority of the population – we’d all be married to Mel Gibson.

Mark Twain, via the Quotemaster:

If you can’t stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, on his investigation of the gold market:

I never intended to get in a battle of wits with Glenn Beck. As you know, he comes only half-prepared to that battle.

Malcolm X, from the Quotemaster:

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be
at peace unless he has his freedom.

Studs Terkel, from the Qoutemaster:

I said, “Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?'” I can’t take back that I’m against the poll tax, that I’m against lynching, that I’m for peace.

S. Lendvay:

Testosterone makes people about as stupid as they can get.

Blag Hag has supporting evidence.

The Governator:

I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.

Via Mr FeastingonRoadKill:

“Why do free social networks tilt inevitably toward user exploitation? Because you’re not their customer, you’re their product.”