Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c’est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours leur donner des explications…

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them…

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “Le petit prince”

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.

Sir Winston Churchill

It’s enough of a miracle that there are laws at all, but what’s really a miracle is to be able to find them.

Richard Feynman

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

President Franklin Roosevelt

I asked God for a bike, but I knew God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.

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The Democrats are the party of government activism, the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then get elected and prove it.

P.J. O'Rourke, “Parliament of Whores”

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Bertrand Russell

All right, you know what blows my mind? Women can see breasts any time they want. You just look down and there they are. How you get any work done is beyond me.

Joey, “Friends”

In fundamental physics, the thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting — the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.

Richard Feynman

“The world must be all fucked up,” he said then, “when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.”

Gabriel García Márquez

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: “President Can't Swim.”

Lyndon Johnson

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Bertrand Russell

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Sir Winston Churchill

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

No one can sit at the bedside of a dying child and still believe in God.

Bertrand Russell

I didn't do coke, I didn't. I never understood that drug. If you want to be edgy and nervous, go to work!

Bill Maher

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What have we to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!

Isaac Asimov

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position.

Bill Maher

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Lin Yutang

Reporter: “What do you think of western civilization?”
Gandhi: “I think it would be a great idea.”

Mahatma Gandhi

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

George Carlin

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

David Baldacci