“Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn’t learn of it for six months.”
– Bill Tammeus

“Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.”
– Charles McCabe

“Sanity is a madness put to good use.”
– George Santayana

“Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.”
– Milton Friedman

“What luck for rulers that men do not think.”
– Adolf Hitler

“We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.”
– Robert Wilensky

“He may be mad, but there’s method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It’s what drives men mad, being methodical.”
– G. K. Chesterton

“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.
– Konrad Adenauer

“Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
– Anonymous

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be the change that you want to see in the world.”
– Gandhi

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
– Agatha Christie

Christmas, children, is not a date.  It is a state of mind.
– Mary Ellen Chase

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
– Clement Clarke Moore

“Advertisements… contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.”
– Rod Serling

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
– George Burns

“We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.”
– Sir Arthur Eddington

“I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.”
– Agatha Christie