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Edgar Bergen, (Charlie McCarthy)
Irv Kupcinet
Elbert Hubbard
Robert Cecil Day Lewis
Ashley Montagu
Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
Thomas Troward
Joseph Addison
Jim Bishop
Dale Carnegie
Tyron Edwards
R. W. Griswold
Immanuel Kant
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Marianne Moore
Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism
Charles M. Schwab
Simms
Henry Van Dyke
Author Unknown
John Locke
Yiddish Proverb
Leonardo Da Vinci
Eric Hoffer
Gerald Nachman
Ogden Nash
Jackie Mason
Maurice Sendak
Errol Flynn
Unknown
Georges Clemenceau
Fletcher Knebel
Hermann Hesse
Walter Winchell
Ann Landers
Theodore Sturgeon
Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Tommy Cooper
Richard Diran
Evan Davis
Graffito, in Los Angeles
Barry Commoner
Wilson Mizner
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
William Blake
Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
Anatole France
Hubert H. Humphrey
Emily Dickinson
Liza Minnelli
Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
Dick Werthimer
Truman Capote
Woody Allen
Sir Julian Huxley
Adrienne E. Gusoff
Rita Rudner
Henny Youngman
Oscar Levant
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Jerome K. Jerome
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
From the 1985 movie "Bliss"
Plato
Alice James
Dave Barry
Bertrand Russell
John D. Rockefeller
Philip Johnson
Dame Rose Macaulay
Alan Woods
Samuel Johnson
Herb Caen
Arthur Schopenhauer
Henry Kissinger
Sir Thomas Beecham
From "Taxi"
Joe Theismann, Former quarterback
Erma Bombeck
Raymond Chandler
Aristotle
Jeff Marder
Stephen Leacock
Katharine Whitehorn
Lester J. Pourciau
Niels Bohr
Norman Brenner
H. L. Mencken
Jay Leno
Fran Lebowitz
Art Spander
Thomas Neill
Nick Diamos
Barbara Bush
Indira Gandhi, quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982
Charles de Montesquieu
Douglas Adams
Mark Twain
Scott Adams
Brian Aldiss
Buzz Aldrin
Muhammad Ali
Konrad Lorenz
Walter Anderson
Arthur Ashe
Isaac Asimov
Jane Wagner
Australian Aboriginal Elder
Walter Bagehot
Clive Barnes
Josh Billings
Gloria Borger
Victor Borge
Ben Bova
Dick Brandon
Bertolt Brecht
David Brower
Lenny Bruce
Charles Buxton
Simon Cameron
George Washington Carver
Cenotaph in Hiroshima
Leo Tolstoy
John Vance Cheney
Arthur C. Clarke
Frederick L Collins
Bill Cosby
Frank Crane
The Daleks (Doctor Who)
Salvador Dali
Charles Anderson Dana
Clarence Darrow
Phillip K. Dick
R. A. Dickson
Walt Disney
Bob Dylan
J.W. Eagan
Dean Riesner, Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry in "Sudden Impact", 1983
W. Somerset Maugham
Abba Eban
Steady Eddy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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W. C. Fields
Joseph Fischer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ian Fleming
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Henry Ford
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George Gallup
Mahatma Gandhi
Stanley Garn
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Andre Gide
Allen Ginsberg
Samuel Goldwyn
Horace Greeley
Hagar the Horrible
Haida Indian saying
J.B.S. Haldane
Stephen Hawking
Joseph Heller
Ernest Hemingway
Frank Herbert
Sir Edmund Hillary
Alfred Hitchcock
Aldous Huxley
Groucho Marx
Joan Klempner
C. D. Jackson
Peter de Jager
Joe Jacobs
Jerome K Jerome
Wendell Johnson
Franklin P Jones
Chantal Saperstein
James Joyce
Carl Jung
Edward Kennedy
John F Kennedy
Joseph P Kennedy
Robert F Kennedy
Charles F. Kettering
John Maynard Keynes
Martin Luther King
Dan Bellack
Tommy Lasorda
T. E. Lawrence
Martin Mull
Timothy Leary
John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981-1987
John Lennon
C. S. Lewis
Phillip Lubin
Donald R. Gannon
E.V. Lucas
Marshall McLuhan
Charlie McCarthy
J.P. McEvoy
Andre Malraux
Mao Tse-tung
Vicomte de Chateaubriand
Bob Marley
Henry Louis Mencken
George Meredith
Henry Miller
A. A. Milne
Ashley Montague
Desmond Morris
Reinhold Niebuhr
Kenich Ohmae
Sir Laurence Olivier
George Orwell
George Osner
Robert Oppenheimer
George S. Patton
Pablo Picasso
Gifford Pinchot
Will Rogers
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hesketh Pearson
Leo Rosten
Mark Russell
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
George Santayana
Jean-Paul Sartre
Albert Schweitzer
Peter Sellers
George Bernard Shaw
Phillip Stanhope
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Charles Steinmetz
Han Suyin
Thomas Szasz
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
H.S. Thompson
Lord Thomson of Fleet
James Thurber
J. R. R. Tolkein
Harry S Truman
Lao Tzu
Kurt Vonnegut
Robert Orben
Andy Warhol
Harold Wilson
Wittgenstein
Doctor Who
Robert Bloch
Frank Lloyd Wright
Steven Wright
Lin Yutang
Marston Bates
Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
Beatrice Lillie
Ayn Rand
Lilly Tomlin, as Ernestine the Operator
Lily Tomlin
Meryl Streep
Denise Klahn
Minna Antrim
Ashely Montagu
Cher
Suzanne Necker
Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow', 1932
Katherine Hepburn
Cynthia Nelms
Carole Burnett
Judith Stone
Joan Rivers
Phyllis Diller
Zenna Schaffer
Jenny Jerome Churchill
Pauline Kael
Barbara Melser Lieberman
Dorothy Parker
Anne Lamott
Elayne Boosler
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Jules Renard
Liz Winston
Lesley Boone.
Adrienne Gusoff
Agatha Christie
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Rita Mae Brown
Jackie Onassis
Ernestine Ulmer
Elizabeth Drew
Martha Gellman
Maryon Pearson
Dan Rather
Joan Kiser
Kelly Robinson
Adair Lara
Robert M. Hamilton
Elizabeth Bowen
Wendy Ward
Helen Rowland
Helena Rubenstein
Rebecca West
Thomas H. Huxley
Mae West
Dora Russell
Mary Wilson Little
Lillian Hellman
H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", first line
Alice Jones
Brigitte Bardot
Edward Teller
Marlene Dietrich
Tallulah Bankhead, on seeing a former lover for the first time in years
Jean Kerr
George Eliot
Virginia Woolf
Deborah Martin
Simone Weil
Indira Gandhi
Fanny Burney
Kate Chopin
Woodrow Wilson
Becky Rodenbeck
Nikki Harris
Lauren Bacall
Iris Murdoch
Francois Sagan
Margot Asquith
Edna Ferber
Irene Thomas
Maggie Kuhn
Margaret Mead
Jane Austen
Elizabeth Gaskell
Germaine Greer
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Dorothy Sayers
Dorothy Parker, suggested for her tombstone
Dorothy Parker, telegram to friend who had given birth
Sir Francis Bacon
Mrs Patrick Campbell, to George Bernard Shaw
Karen Horney
Laurie Jo Wojcik
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Eric Ambler
Cathy Guisewite
Harriet Braiker
Margaret Mitchell
Celia Green
Rosalind Russell, as Aunti Mame
Nora Ephron
Harriet Van Horne
M. F. K. Fisher
Mary Queen of Scots
Nancy Mitford
Rose Macauley
Queen Victoria
Hannah More, 1775
Bette Midler
Dorothy Parker, book review
Gypsy Rose Lee
Henry J. Tillman
Ty-Grace Atkinson
Madame Curie
Katharine Hepburn
Margaret Turnbull
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"
Edith Sitwell
Dorothy Parker, when told she was outspoken
Nancy Astor
Helen Gurley Brown
Ruby Manikan
Stevie Smith
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Rosalind Russell
Collen McCullough
Missy Dizick
Jane Fonda
Carolyn Wells
Gloria Swanson
Betty Friedan
Josephine Tey
Barbara Stanwyck
Phyllis Chesler
Alison Lurie
Laurie Colwin
Xaviera Hollander
Clare Booth Luce
Lillian Day
Elizabeth Jenkins
Judith Stern
George Eliot, a.k.a. Mary Ann Evans
Mark Twain, in Christian Science
Joyce Carol Oates
Ruth Gordon
Mignon McLaughlin
Sally Poplin
Judy Garland
Dame Edith Sitwell
Lady Bird Johnson
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Muriel Spark
Elizabeth Janeway
Susan Sontag
Elinor Glyn
Princess Anne
Charles Luckman
Helen Lawrenson
Kathleen Norris
Madame de Sevigne
Margaret Miller
Frank Zappa
Dame Rose Macauley
Harriet Van Horne.
Anita Loos
Mary Webb
Hannah Arendt
Dame Rebecca West
Marya Mannes
Naomi Bliven
Emmeline Pankhurst
Coco Chanel
Alexis Carrel
Adrian Mitchell
Lillian Bell
Madame Swetchine
Mary McCarthy
Elizabeth Adamson
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Agnes Repplier
Marcelene Cox
Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Tynan Hinkson
Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
Anne Frank
Erica Jong
Katharine Butler Hathaway
Edgar Watson Howe
Pearl Buck
May Sarton
Marilyn Monroe
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Shirley Temple Black
Berta Buxton
Voltaire
Pierre Beaumarchais
Harold Rosenberg
B. F. Skinner
Christopher Morley
Thomas Jefferson
Frank Moore Colby
Laurence J. Peter
Charles Peters
Eugene McCarthy, Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979
Milton Friedman
John Cleese
Oscar Wilde
Czech Proverb
Russell Baker
Fred Allen
William Feather
Colette
Captain Lawrence Oates, last words
Russell Green
Edward Shepherd Mead
Peter Drucker
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"
Benjamin Franklin
Howard Scott
Clement Atlee
Thomas Pickering
George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
Alfred A. Knopf
G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
Frank Leahy
Sir William Osler, Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
Alexander Pope, Letter to Gay, October 6, 1727
Benjamin Stolberg
Lord Salisbury
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Soren Kierkegaard
Tom Stoppard
Kin Hubbard
Chester Bowles
Gustave Flaubert
Evelyn Waugh
William Ralph Inge
Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
Don Marquis
Joseph Wood Krutch
Gertrude Stein
Robert Frost
Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
Carrie Fisher
Henry Adams
Evelle J. Younger
Alvin Toffler
Anonymous
Clifton Fadiman
Max Planck
James M. Barrie
Albert Einstein
James Broughton
Randall Wallace
Ian Gabirol
Guy Gavriel Kay
Henry David Thoreau
Paul Claudel
Alphonse Daudet
Alain
Friedrich Nietzsche
Unknown, Army Magazine of Preventive Maintenance
James Allen
Louisa May Alcott
Richard Bach
Zig Ziglar
Brendan Gill
Alan Ashley-Pitt
Confucious
Moliere
J. W. Eagan
Chief Seattle
John Wooden
Abraham Lincoln
John Petit-Senn
Tennessee Williams
Deepak Chopra
Spotted Tail (Sioux Indian)
Geronimo
Shawnee Indian Chant
Dr. Suzanne Botts
W.H. Auden
Samuel Butler
Alan Patrick Herbert
Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
Nick Faldo
Michel de Montaigne
Charles Baudelaire
Ronald Reagan
Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase"
Denis Diderot
Eric Sevareid
Ben Hecht
James Reston, New York Times, June 12 1968
Henry Fielding
W. H. Auden
Paul Fussell
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
Sinclair Lewis
Heinrich Heine
Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
William James
Ernest Benn
Lester B. Pearson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Harry Shearer
Gore Vidal
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Berton Averre
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"
Robert Benchley
Alice Kahn
David Brinkley
Thomas A. Edison
W. L. George
Will Rogers, New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
John F. Kennedy
Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
Slovenian Proverb
Elias Schwartz
Bob Wells
Will Durant
Casey Stengel
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
William J. H. Boetcker
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
Dorothy Nevill
David Friedman
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince", 1943
Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)
Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
Evelyn Waugh, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
e e cummings
Albert Camus
Roald Dahl, (Willy Wonka) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Robert Anton Wilson
Doug Larson
Saki
Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977
M. C. Escher
William Dement
Richard Nixon
Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] 65BC - 8BC
James Madison, (attributed)
James Madison
John Adams
Rush (the band), "Freewill"
Churchill
Attributed by Plato to Socrates, "Apology"
Mark A. Overby
Ken Hakuta
Bertrand Russell, "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism"
Bible, James 2:19 (New International Version)
Cato the Censor (?)
Dave Letterman
Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power"
Archbishop William Temple, 1955
William Ralph Inge, 1920
Lord Samuel, "Romanes Lecture", 1947
George Bernard Shaw, "St. Joan"
Occam
Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip
Charles De Gaulle
George Burns
Lady Astor and William Churchill
Red Skelton
James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake"
G.K. Chesterton
Theodore Roosevelt
Daniel Webster
Krishnamurti
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 5.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 2.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 6.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 9.
Henry Spencer
Steve Martin
Otto von Bismark
Ken Thompson
Bill Vaughan
Sir Walter Scott, "Marmion"
Confucius
Cicero
William S. Buroughs, Paris Review, Fall 1965
Clark Coleman
Tolkien
Shriekback, "Cradle Song"
Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables"
Albert Einstein.
William Wordsworth
"A Canticle for Leibowitz"
Tom Wolfe
Sir Winston Churchill
Woody Allen, Without Feathers
Harry S Truman, in Look, Apr. 3, 1956
Andrew Brown
Muriel Rukeyser
George Will, Newsweek, 2/22/93
John W. Gardner
Miriam Defensor Santiago, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Greenville County (S.C.) Department of Social Services, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Don Eslinger, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
George Bush, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Alan Kay
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape
John Archibald Wheeler, American J. of Physics, 1978, 46, 323
Sam Walter Foss, Back Country Poems, 1892
Joseph Stalin, Winston Chuirchill, The Second World War, vol 1
Samuel Johnson, Letter to Lord Chesterfield, 1775
Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love
Peter Brimelow, National Review (2/1/93)
Sam Malone, Cheers
Karl R. Popper
Somerset Maugham
A.E. Houseman
John Updike, Rabbit Redux
Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene"
Robert Byrne
Lord Brabazon
Cyril Connolly
W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
E.M. Forster
W.H. Auden, revised "Sept. 1, 1939"
Shelley, incomplete, poets
Richard Lovelace, To Althea from Prison
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield, 1749
Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"
Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887.
J.D., "Heathers"
G. K. Chesterton, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown
Arthur Koestler
Tom Robbins
Kevin Rooney
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Don Herold
Damon Runyon
John Russell
Ernest Rutherford
SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.
Marquis de Sade
Donatien-Alphonse-Francois de Sade
William Safire
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Carl Sagan, Contact
James Price Salsman
Jim Samuels
George Sanders
Sir Walter Scott
Niccola Sebastiani
Edgar A. Shoaff
J.W. Schopf
Erwin Schrodinger
E. F. Schumacher
sendmail ruleset 3 comment from DEC.
Dr. Seuss, (as quoted in his obit in Time)
William Shakespeare
William Shatner as Kirk, in "Dagger of the Mind"
G. B. Shaw
GB Shaw
Paul Valery
Solomon Short
Jean Sibelius
Corky Siegel
Ray Simard
John Simon
Isaac Bashevis Singer
B.F. Skinner
John Sladek
Yakov Smirnoff
Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
Senator Soaper
Eugene H. Spafford
Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
Matt Sorrels in reference to Andrew running X-Windows
Walt Stack
Elvin Stackman
Guy L. Steele Jr., Tartan Laboratories
William Stekel
Zalman Stern, former ITC hacker diety
Zalman Stern
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Publilius Syrus
Tao Te Ching
Booth Tarkington
The Teachings of Ebenezum, Volume VIII
Martin Terman
Hunter S. Thompson
Ken Thompson, quoted by Dennis Ritchie
Mary R. Thompson
Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live"
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
Chris Thyberg
Henrik Tikkanen
Time Bandits
Trotsky
Harry S. Truman
Mark Twain, "Advice to Youth" Speech, 1882
Arthur C. Clarke, 2010
Doug Tygar
Robin Tyler
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Sun Tzu
William Van Horne
H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix"
Wernher von Braun
John von Neumann, on being phoned at 10 a.m.
John von Neumann
Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
Larry Wall
Larry Wall in
Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991
Artemus Ward
George Washington
Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985
Prof. Larry Wasserman
Weekend Update
Orson Welles
S. Weinstein
Weisert
Joseph Weizenbaum
H. G. Wells
Walt West
James McNeill Whistler
William Allen White
Alfred North Whitehead
Norbert Wiener
Oscar Wilde, as he sipped champagne on his deathbed
George Will
E. V. Lucas
Gene Wolfe
Nero Wolfe
Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae"
Oswald Wyler
The "Xlib Programming Manual"
Andrew Young
The Young Ones
Jim Zelenka
Carl Zwanzig
David Fiedler, in _Byte_
Einstein
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Sign of Four
Sir Winston Churchill, Speech, 4. June, 1940
Sir John Collins Squire, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
Leo Szilard, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
Tom Margerison, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
Frederic Joliot-Curie, quoted by M.A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
R. W. Emerson
Douglas Hostadter
Stanislaw Lec
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, "Discovery", 1964
Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
Willie Sutton
Sigmund Freud
Proverbs 12:19, The Bible
Proverbs 12:19, The King James Bible
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Attributed; when the courtesan Harriette Wilson threatened to publish her memoirs and his
Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)
Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) AD 39-65, The Civil War, bk. I, 128
The Seven Sages, (Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus,Solon, Thales) c. 650 - c. 550 BC, From Diogenes Laertius, Lives
Sextus Propertius 54 BC-AD 2, Elegies, II, xix, 32
Hippocrates c. 460-400 BC, Breaths, bk. I
G. K. Chesterton
Lionel Trilling
George Bernard Shaw, "Metamagical Themas" by Douglas Hofstadter
William Gladstone
Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth
Mahatma Ghandi
Vearncombe, Black, "Paradise"
Penn Jillette, in a Compuserve chat
Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless"
Luke Rhinehart
Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
Q., Star Trek, the Next Generation, "Deja Q"
The Running Man, movie
Predator
Albert Einstein, 1929
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
Confucius, Analects, XV.24
Confucius, Analects, XIV.12
Confucius, Analects, IV.3
Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
Confucius, Analects, IV.7
Confucius, nalects, IV.11
Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156-160.
Alexander Smith
Jean de La Bruyere
Anais Nin
Francois de La Rochefoucald
Alexander Penney
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 1855
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
R. Buckminster Fuller
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Walt Whitman
Lord Byron
Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason"
Su Shih
Plato, Symposium
Euclid, Said to king Ptolemy I
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Marvin Minsky
Jonathan Swift
Lao-Tzu, Tao te Ching
Buckaroo Banzai (the film)
W.V.O. Quine
--Henry David Thoreau
--Aristotle
Robert Fripp
Kelly Barton
John Stuart Mill
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Quoting "The Bhagavad Gita",Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1945
Roland, "The Last Gunslinger"
Alan Watts
Charlotte P Gilman
Wendell Phillips
Hawkeye and Trapper, M*A*S*H
Alfred E. Wiggam
William F. Buckley Jr., "The Wit and Wisdom of Vlad the Impaler"
William Langland
Jessie Sampter
Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)
Theodor Herzl
Sheila Graham
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
Marilyn Ferguson
Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Childhood"
Marge Piercy
Martha Graham
Christina Baldwin
Evenius
Shirley MacLaine
Benjamin Disraeli
Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"
Natalie Goldberg
Dutch Proverb
Francis Marion
Adelle Davis
Latvian Proverb
Amy Dacyczyn
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi, in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Kahlil Gibran
Carmen de Monteflores
Thomas Carlyle
John Viscount Morley
Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)
Saadi
Cato the Elder
Kossuth
Pythagoras
James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly"
Seneca
Aphra Behn
Marita Bonner
Thomas Hobbes
Heda Bejar
Christina Petrowsky
James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 18, 1939 "The Shrike and the Chipmunks"
Christina Rossetti
Scottish Proverb
Mary Stewart
Fred R. Barnard
Martin Luther
Amelia Earhart
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Marcel Proust
Mary Pettibone Poole
James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God"
Helen Keller
Monica Baldwin
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Golda Meir
Edward Gibbon
David Starr Jordan
Paul Goodman
Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Harriet Lerner
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Hannah Green
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897
Arnold Toynbee
John Quincy Adams
Isabelle Eberhardt
Shirley Temple
Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)
Hortense Calisher
Bishop Richard Cumberland
Arthur Rubinstein
Charlotte Bronte
Jennie Jerome Churchill
Napoleon Bonaparte
Michael Hanson
Audre Lorde
George Sand
Epictetus
John Heywood
Anna Sewell
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Louise Erdrich
Amy Lowell
Mickey Rooney
Leon Battista Alberti
Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
Blaise Pascal
Margery Cuyler
John Constable
Henry Timrod
Edith Nesbitt
Kurt Lewin
Rachel Carson
Anne Wilson Schaef
Ingrid Bengis
Cherrie Moraga
Billy Wilder
J. Arthur Thomson
Evelyn Underhill
Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
William Hale White
W. N. Taylor
Susan J. Bissonette
Mary Kay Ash
Gretel Ehrlich
Lisa Alther
Ellis Peters
Haddon W. Robinson
Miriam Beard
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Etty Hillesum
Sir Robert Hutchinson
John Dewey
Anthony Starr
Annie Dillard
King Whitney Jr.
Ruth Stout
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Phyllis Mcginley
Dorothy L. Sayers
Alice May Brock
Agathon
Senator Everett Dirksen
Charles Churchill
Diane Ackerman
Louis Pasteur
Peter McWilliams
Eudora Welty
Granville Hicks
Margaret Bonnano
Dr. Howard Murphy
W. S. Gilbert
Ludwig Feuerbach
Doris Lessing
Mark Twain, Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
Henry George
William Ernest Hocking
Henry J. Kaiser
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Ludwig Erhard
Georg W. Hegel
James Rippe, M.D.
Patricia Moyes
Thomas Dekker
Lord Chesterfield
Mary S. Calderone
Eleanor Hamilton
German Proverb
Michael Masser and Linda Creed
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Marcus Valerius Martialis
Victor Hugo
Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915
Agnes Repplier, Americans and Others, 1912
Dorothy Gilman, A New Kind of Country, 1978
Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927
Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, last words, 1762
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
Gloria Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, 1983
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947
Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
Pearl Buck, The Joy of Children, 1964
Colette, Prisons and Paradise, 1932
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1818
Colette, in New York World-Telegram and Sun, 1961
Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life, 1978
Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952
Colette, Paris From My Window, 1944
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952
Judy Grahn, Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds, 1984
Marie Curie, letter to her brother, 1894
Clare Booth Luce, in H. Faber, The Book of Laws, 1980
Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847
Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952
Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974
Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902
Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989
Robert Frost, (attributed)
Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
Ellen Glasgow, The Woman Within, 1954
Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976
Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969
Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845
Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966
Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985
Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934
Elizabeth I, in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
Alice Walker, Living by the Word, 1988
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877
Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976
Ayn Rand, Anthem, 1946
George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart, 1989
Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763
Saki, "The Square Egg", 1924
Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, 1969
Ivy Baker Priest, in Parade, 1958
Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living, 1931
Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
Marie De France, 12th Century
Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
Abigail Adams, letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931
May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, 1965
Anne-Sophie Swetchine, The Writings of Madame Swetchine, 1869
Malcolm X
Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11:11
Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898
W. Edwards Deming
Karen Sunde
Peter Ustinov
Sophocles
Marguerite de Valois
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Jeanne Moreau
Unknown, Suggested book title
Herman Melville
Joseph Murphy
Raymond Holliwell
Saint Francis of Assisi
Sally Kempton
Charles Kingsley
Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
Robert Heinlein, Lazarus Long: Time Enough For Love
Michael Pritchard
The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700-1000 B.C.
Francois de Fenelon
Earl Warren
James Feibleman
John Ruskin
Madonna
William Cowper
Kenneth Hildebrand
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Robert Fritz
Alexander Hamilton
Rainer Maria Rilke
Dr. Smiley Blanton
Margaret Fuller
General Douglas MacArthur
Ken Kesey
Joey Adams
George Lois
Norman Podhoretz
Reggie Leach
William Penn
Peter Minard
Charles Dickens
Oprah Winfrey
John Tudor
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Daniel J. Boorstin
William Lloyd Garrison
Koran
Joseph Stalin
Lawrence Bixby
Katharine Graham
Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
Bernard M. Baruch, 1940
George Washington, letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "American Civilization", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857
Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711
Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1820
Charles W. Eliot, The Happy Life, 1896
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Reading, 1854
Sir Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Building, 1623
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950
Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, 1653
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie du Gout, 1825
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1849
James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Higher Laws, 1854
James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 1711
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, 1825
Sir Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, 1605
Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B.C.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838
Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790
Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
E.M. Cioran
Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, 64 A.D.
Michael Korda
Honore de Balzac
Delmore Schwartz
Victor Buono
Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Economy, 1854
Nicholas Murray Butler
John Barrymore
Badger Clark
Horace Mann, address at Antioch College, 1859
Peter De Vries
William F. Buckley Jr.
Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Urine Test
Al Capp
James Reston
Joseph Addison, The Spectator, September 26, 1712
Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
Louis Ferdinand Celine
Plato, _Phaedrus_
John Ciardi
Heywood Broun
Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958
Andrew Carnegie
W.C. Fields
Noel Coward
Edouard Manet
Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People, 1882
Calvin Trillin
Harry Hershfield
Tallulah Bankhead
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Conclusion, 1854
Jean-Michel Jarre
Charles Chincholles
Mortimer Caplin
Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, 1843
James Agate
Dwight Eisenhower
Philip Wylie
Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in New York, September 7, 1903
Jean Rostand
Leonard Brandwein
Turkish proverb
Karl Kraus
John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850
I.F. Stone
William Jennings Bryan
Edmund Burke
Voltaire, Candide, 1759
Quentin Crisp
Judie Brown, President, American Life Lobby
Jimmy Swaggart
Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro-Life Action League
Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
Reverend John Vaughan, Financial administrator for the Archdiocese of Miami (when asked why they held stock in companies that ma
Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"
Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, 1845
Machiavelli
R. D. Laing
Cleveland Amory
Robert W. Sarnoff
Don DeLillo
President Herbert Hoover, in proposing the abolition of the United Nations, in favor of a "cooperation of God-fearing free natio
President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U.S. Gov. 1966 p1063
President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U.S. Gov. 1966 pp548-549
Pat Robertson, when asked the question "Does the Bible specifically tell us what is going to happen in the future", "700 Club" D
President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
Danny Kaye
"Scratch" Garrison
William Simpson, A.C.L.U.
The Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985
Henry David Thoreau, Journal, July 25, 1839
Harold S. Kushner
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841
VII Putnam
Charles Manson
J. K. Galbraith
Logan Pearsall Smith
Sir Thomas Browne
William Hamilton
Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957
Franz Kafka
Brendan Behan
MIT Assasination Club slogan
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," the Conclusion
Robert Heinlein, Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, 1885
Arthur Rimbaud
H.G. Wells
Moody Blues, "Tuesday Afternoon"
J.G. Ballard
Jules Feiffer
Sydney Smith
Audrey Giorgi
Sam Levenson
Benito Mussolini
Isaac Newton
Wernher von Braun commenting on bureaucracy
Norman Mailer
J.D. McCoughey
Thomas Elisha Stewart
Jean Houston
Miyamoto Musashi, 1645
Jeremy Bentham
Guindon cartoon caption
J.B. Priestley
Jack Paar
Beilby Porteus, Death, A Poem
Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - 1827
Groucho Marx, A Day at the Races - 1936
Charlie McCarthy (Edgar Bergen)
Dana Hatch
Emo Philips
Victor Lownes
Saint Theresa of Jesus
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh - San Francisco Chronicle 12/17/85
Hans Johst (c. 1939)
John Updike
Dick Gregory
George F. Will
Horace Smith
Philip Sheridan
Malcolm Forbes
F. Phelps
Adela Rogers St. Johns
Alan King
George Jean Nathan
Kit Carson
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Joseph Conrad
Kodak founder George Eastman, in his suicide note
Actor Edmund Gwenn
Christopher Hampton
Norman Vincent Peale
Peter Stack, in a movie review in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 2, 1983
Paddy Chayefsky
Alan Corenk
A.J. Liebling
A shout from chess grandmaster Aaron Nimzovich
Nancy Reagan
Mick Lloyd Kerman
Richard M. Nixon
Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner
Roy Blount Jr.
Guy Davenport
Marcel Ophuls
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy
Ronald Reagan in 1973
David Steinberg
Dwight David Eisenhower
Gioacchino Rosini
Socrates
St. John Baptist de La Salle, The Rules of Christian Manners and Civility (c. 1695)
The Talmud
Thomas B. Reed
Stendhal
Fredirect Toyou
Graffito, reported by Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 1980
Judy Garland, to her daughter, Liza Minelli
Elias Canetti
Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802
Al Capone
Jose Marie Gil Robles, speech in Madrid, 1933
Henry David Thoreau, "An Essay on Civil Disobedience," 1849.
California Civil Code, "Object of a Contract"
California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
Thomas Paine, in his "The Rights of Man" (1791)
Robert Heinlein
Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
John Adams, (Diary, 1786)
Thomas Jefferson (Motto on his seal)
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787
Patrick Henry, (Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775)
Marian Evans
Anton Chekhov
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1850
Grafitto
Stephen Price
Max Weinreich
Susan Ertz
Edward Abbey (Vox Clamans in Deserto)
Richard Rybolt
Catullus
Ovid
Publilius Syrus (c. 42 BC)
Menander
Henery Miller, Tropic of Cancer 1934
Shelley (Queen Mab)
Don Quinn
La Rochefoucauld
(Anon.)
Elie Wiesel
John A. Shedd
P. G. Wodehouse
From The Last Goon Show of All
Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper editor
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Paul Gauguin
Gloria Steinem
Jean Cocteau
The Clown Prince of Darkness, (correspondence, 1988)
It will fluctuate.
The Residents "Duck Stab":Bach is Dead
Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
Alfred Jarry
Arnold H. Glasgow
Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point"
Howard Newton
Gamel Abdel Nasser
John Wayne
Stephen Crane
Bill Watterson, cartoonist
General Robert E. Lee
Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"
Ronald Graham, "Rudiments of Ramsey Theory"
Saint Jerome
T. E. Lawrence, "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
James Russell Lowell
Eric Berne
George Herbert Walker Bush, Nov. 1988
Robert Quillen
Victor Borges
I.F. Stone 1907-1989
The Clown Prince of Darkness, corresponsdence
John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963
Dom Perignon, at the moment of his discovery of champagne
Benny Hill
Jonathan Miller
Franklin P. Jones
Alex Comfort
Guy Goden
The Clown Prince of Darkness
Plautus
Sir Richard F. Burton
J. Edgar Hoover
Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
Ursula K. LeGuin
Cato, Roman statesman and historian
Clarence Thomas
Molly Wiest
Chuck Norris
Jean-Francois Rameau
H.P. Lovecraft
Bellamy Brooks
H. Allen Smith, "Let the Crabgrass Grow"
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Florynce Kennedy
Admiral Hyman Rickover
Maurice Chevalier
G. Gordon Liddy
Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
Vladimir Nabokov
Ring Lardner, The Young Immigrants, 1920
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend
Malcolm De Chazal
Johnny Carson
Don Carpenter quoting a Hollywood agent
Tom K. Ryan
Beckett
Henri De Regnier
Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakower
Will Durst
Neil Simon, in Playboy, Feb. 1979
William Arthur Ward
e. e. cummings, on the death of Warren G. Harding, 1923
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from Mrs. L. Conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Ralph Nader, The Pacific Sun, March 21, 1981
Sigmund Freud, (Attributed)
The National, Paris, 1850
The Tribune, Berlin, 1871
Eduard Hanslick
P.A. Fiorentino
Steve Allen, from the Question Man segment on the Steve Allen Show
Edgar Allan Poe
H.H. Munro (Saki)
Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
James Beard
Jean Anouilh
Herodotus
Lord Acton
Katherine Whitehorn
Jack Warner
Alexander Woollcott
David McCullough
A.A. Milne
Luis Bunuel
Oliver Herford
Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park.
Michael Winner, British film director
John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956
Woody Allen, Annie Hall
Aaron Nimzovich, A shout from the chess grandmaster
Chateaubriand
Amy Tan
Spinoza, Dutch Philosopher
Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy
Eykis
(St. Luke 2:1)
Erving Goffman
Peg Bracken
John S. Coleman
Jean Baptiste Colbert
George Wither
Muhammad Ali on the occasion of one of his retirements
Sugar Ray Robinson
Callimachus (c. 260 B.C.)
Moses Hadas
Igor Stravinsky
Mouth organist Larry Adler
S.J. Perelman
Alexander Pope
Christopher Isherwood
Gottfried Reinhardt
Idi Amin
Adolf Hitler
Ian Shoales
Rodin
Dr. Karl Bowman
Professor Irwin Corey
Richard Burton
Lyman Beecher
Redd Foxx
Chauncey Depew
William Ellery Channing
Blake Clark
Maurice Chapelain
Karl Marx
Diogenes the Cynic (412 to 323 B.C.)
Ronnie Shakes
J. D. Salinger
H. Allen Smith
Hasidic Saying
Charles De Talleyrand
Joseph P. Thompson
Arthur Balfour
St. Jerome
Saint Augustine
Malcolm Muggeridge
Dean Acheson
Irving Cohen
Saul Bellow
Chinese Proverb
Jose Simon
Andre Maurois
Mort Sahl
Brigid Brophy
Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach
Don Quisenberry
Opera producer Larry Kelly
Jawaharlal Nehru
David Darlington, from his novel Angels Visits: An Inquiry into the Mystery of Zinfandel
Book title by Erskine & Moran - 1981
Jacopo Sannazaro
Elija Lovejoy
Joseph Pulitzer
D. H. Lawrence
John Trudell
John Berger
Pete Seeger
Robert Graves
J.M. Barrie
Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
Kenneth Patchen
Aldo Leopold
Richard Benner
Jimmy Cannon
Roger Moore
Josef von Sternberg
Joan Didion
Mell Lazzarus
T.S. Eliot
Oscar Wilde, upon being told the cost of an operation
Thomas C. Haliburton
Mrs Henry Adams (c. 1880)
William Faulkner
Wilfred Sheed
Vernon Sanders Law
Sacha Guitry
Philip Barry
Abigail Van Buren
Joseph F. Newton
Sir Barnett Cocks (ca. 1907)
Garrison Keillor
overheard in Palo Alto...
Kent "Sparky" Gregory
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Lenin
Ronnie Hawkins
Edith Wharton
Mel Lazarus
Howard Zinn
Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917
Samuel Beckett
William Hazlitt
Charles Lindberg Sr., 1915
Sophia Loren
Jorge Luis Borges
Unknown, The Ultimate Law
Homer
Alan Dershowitz
Charles Lamb
Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
David T. Wolf
Corra Harris
James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment
Jeremy Rifkin
Henrik Ibsen
John Denver
Adela Rogers St.John
Donna Summer
Herbert Schiller
Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president
Hans Konig
Nicholas Chamfort
A. Sachs
Bob Stokes
Abigail Van Buren in reply to the question: "Why do Jews always answer a question with a question?"
Margaret "Stevie" Smith
Peter S. Prescott
Millicent Fenwick
P.D. James
From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
Connie Chung to Johnny Carson
Joaquin Setanti
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter"
Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakower
Carol Burnett
Bernard M. Baruch
Dwight Morrow
Walter Slezak
R. H. Grant
Claude Bernard
Juvenal
Alexandre Dumas
Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets
Budd Schulberg
The laws of Manu
Col. Jack Ripper, commander of Burpleson AFB to Group Capt. Mandrake (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove
C.G. Jung
Marty Indik
Jim Beggs
Mortimer Adler
Charles V
General George Patton
Jeannette Rankin
Henry David Thoreau, Jan. 3, 1861
Richard J. Ferris, president, United Airlines
Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.
Ernest Coquelin
Stephen Leacock, 1912
Miguel Cervantes
Andrew A. Rooney
Proverbs 7:17-18
Frank Dane
Linda Festa on the origins of Christianity
Hervey Allen
Poet Louise Bogan
The Book of Joshua 6:21
Margo Kaufman
Israel Zangwill
Alexander Haig
John Lilly
Jules de Gaultier
Bruce Leverett - "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"
Horace Walpole
Bobby Knight
Walt Kelly
Paul McCracken
Wilfrid Sheed
Finley Peter Dunne
Ogden Nash, "Reflections on Ice-Breaking"
Ogden Nash, "The Pig"
Melvin Belli on the occasion of his getting kicked out of the American Bar Association
Darin Weinberg
Charles Caleb Colton
Robert Redford
Irwin Edman
Robert Ardrey
Alexandre Dumas, fils
Charles Ives
Charlotte Whitton
Arnold Bennett
James A. Garfield
Conte Camillo Benso di Cavour
Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle
Sidney J. Harris
Sir Robert Hutchison
D. A. F. Sade, "Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man"
Matthew Green (c. 1737)
James Oppenheim
Denis de Rougemont
John Bracken on Captain Barney Kelly, who ran the USS Enterprise into the mud of San Francisco Bay in May 1983
Benjamin Jowett
Calvin Coolidge or Woodrow Wilson
advice given to Herbert Humphrey by an American Indian from New Mexico
Pierre Corneille
Jerome Lettvin
Maude (Ruth Gordon), from the movie "Harold & Maude"
John Fletcher
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
Bernard Berenson
Sally Forth, Jan. 28, 1991
Gene Fowler
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
F.W. Lawvere
Michael Wilding
Arthur Gingold
Aneurin Bevan
Latin Proverb
Claud Cockburn
Tim Bedore
Max L. Forman
Nelson Rockefeller
Thorstein Veblen
George Chapman
Bette-Jane Raphael
Lady Violet Bonham Carter
David Chambless
Felix Frankfurter
Alvin Dark, former baseball coach
Dolores Ibarruri, September 3, 1936
Ed McMahon
T.H. Buxley
W. R. Inge
Jim Grue
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell
Hermione Gingold
Nicolas Boileau
Biologist P. B. Medawar
Rep. Bill Dannemeyer, R-Fullerton
Israel Salanter
Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
Mike Kellen
Kayvan Sylvan
Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
Dag Hammarskjold
Isaac Stern
Sallust
Clement Richard Atlee, British prime minister (1945-1951)
Sir Henry Wotton
Jack Pomeroy
Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition
Peggy Joyce
Elsa Schiaparelli
Augustine Birrell
Garry Trudeau
David Frye impersonating Nixon
Thomas Fuller
Orson Welles, 1966
Philip Guedalla
Patricia Neal
Garry Wills
W.L. George
Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King
E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic
Kelvin Throop
Henry Fielding, "Jonathan Wild"
W.S. Gilbert
Vicomte Turenne, Message sent after the battle of Dunen, 658
Franklin P. Adams
Ancient Proverb
Lady Astor
Elisabeth Marbury
Lewis Mumford
Sen Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas
Michelle Shocked
President George Bush, quoted in Asiaweek magazine
President George Bush, to New Hampshire legislators
Paul S. Winalski
David Merritt, a.k.a. THE RED SHARK
Stanislaw J. Lec
Jack London
Beverly Nichols
Pierre Trudeau
Tommy Manville
Arthur Baer
Maggie Roche
Nathaniel Branden
Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957-1963)
Marlo Thomas
Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine
Nikita Khrushchev
Geoffrey Gorer
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Ed Howe
John Barth
Saul Steinberg
Chekov of Tolstoy
James Burke
George Ade
Seen on a bumper sticker
Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"
US District Judge Royce Lambeth, ordering CIA Director Robert Gates to testify at the Clair George trial.
Edward Lear
Peter van der Linden
Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation
Elizabeth Taylor
Charles Foundyller of Daratech, from 8/14/92 Wall St Journal
Frank Tyger
English Proverb
Adopted from Lance Fusco.
Dan Quayle, 09/88
Jeff Zurschmeide
Michael Levin
Japanese Proverb
Mary Poppins
Elaine Richards
Dan McKinnon
John Waters
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"
Bill Cosby, Playboy Interview - May 1969
Fidel Castro, Playboy Interview - January 1967
Johnny Carson, Playboy Interview - December 1967
Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln
Bertrand Russell, Playboy Interview - March 1963
R. Buckminster Fuller, Playboy Interview - February 1972
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966
Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Playboy Interview - December 1963
Duke of Wellington
Arab Proverb
E.B. White
Wystan Hugh Auden
Alben W. Barkley, U.S Vice President (1949-1953)
Channing Pollock
Al Gore - during 1992 Vice Presidential debate
Paul Tsongas, campaigning in New Hampshire
Ross Perot, The Dallas Morning News, March 11, 1984
President Nixon, on the best wife for a president
Maria Callas
Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
Hannah Moore
Jerry Brown
Tom Wicker
Elizabeth Bibesco
George Moore
Calvin Coolidge
John L. Motley
Paul Tsongas
U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson
U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson, addressing 600 people at a prayer breakfast, March 1992 in Wisconsin
Robert Heilbroner
Richard Darman
Mary Howitt
16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.
John Churton Collins
Marc Maihueird
Hamlet II:ii
Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin
Alan Mackay
Jack Benny
Ronald Firbank
William Blake 1803
Herbert Spencer
Horace
William Tecumseh Sherman
Henri de Montherlant
Pliny the Elder
Seen on a button
George Henry Lewes
Rod Serling
Adam Richardson
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), "Through the Looking Glass"
John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
Nigerian Proverb
Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
Bob the Dog
Werner Heisenberg, Philosophical Problems of Nuclear Science, New York: Fawcett 1966, p.13
Fortune cookie
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)
Raoul Vaneigem
Arthur Wing Pinero
Lydia M. Child
H. L. Hunt
Matthew Ryan
Dorothea Dix
William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)
William F. Buckley, Jr., "The Wit and Wisdom of Vlad the Impaler"
Bette Davis
Plato, in Symposium
Euclid, to king Ptolemy I
Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics"
Russ Zandbergen
Thomas Paine
Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis", Science V. 155 No. 3767 (10 March 1967), pp. 1203-1207.
Niccolo Machiavelli "The Prince" 1532
Tao