"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."

-- Samuel Johnson

“When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.”

-- Erik Satie

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."

-- George F. Will

"There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."

-- Bertrand Russell

"All morons hate it when you call them a moron."

-- J.D. Salinger