“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.” — Alfred North Whitehead

“A sadist is a person who is kind to a masochist.” — Arthur Koestler

“Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell.” — Ben Jonson

“We used to have a dog named Snoopy, you know, a real live dog. I suppose people who love Snoopy won’t like it, but we gave him away. He fought with other dogs, so we traded him in for a load of gravel.” — Charles M. Schulz

“Retarded artistically. Idiotic in other respects.” — Teacher’s assessment of 12-year-old Keith Moon, Alperton Secondary School, Wembley, 1958

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” — Borges

“If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.” — Montesquieu

“No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.” — John Adams