The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. G.K. Chesterton How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese. Charles de Gaulle French general & politician (1890 - 1970) Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. Stephen Leacock Canadian economist & humorist (1869 - 1944) The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. Rebecca West Irish critic, journalist, & novelist (1892 - 1983) As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers. Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974) Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long. Ogden Nash US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971) What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. Havelock Ellis English sexual psychologist (1859 - 1939) Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash. Sigmund Freud Austrian psychologist (1856 - 1939) Man is more ape than many of the apes. Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |