I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977I live by good soup, and not on fine language.
—Molière, 1672One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891