Four humorous quotations each day from The Quotations Page
H. L. Mencken
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
Doris Day
"The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it."
Johnny Carson
"Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president."
Albert Einstein
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Kurt Vonnegut
"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."
James Thurber
"He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes."
Thomas Jefferson
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
Robert McCloskey
"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
Bill Vaughan
"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."
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