aphorisms

I want to encourage everybody who is anybody to become somebody.
--Anon.

"Four legs good, two legs better... Baaaaaa!"
-Orwell; the sheep

The Masses are Revolting.
-Jose Ortega y Gassette

No, really, the masses are revolting!
-- Peter :)

Those who do not work, do not eat.

--Lenin / Reagan

From each according to his ability; to each according to his need.

--Marx (in theory)

From each according to his ability; to each according to his need. Gimme!

--Marx (in practice)

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

--Margaret Thatcher

I had to abandon the principles of the free market in order to save it.

--G.W. Bush

Behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts -- a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, burried under arms with funeral accompaniments.

--Thoreau

When there was peace he was for peace, when there was war he went.

--Auden (on "the Unknown Citizen")

"I had other priorities."

-- Cheney (a well known citizen)

The truth is the one thing nobody will believe.

--Shaw

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened.

--Churchill

Do not look to much into the void, lest the void look back into thee.

--Nietzsche

He who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man.

--Samuel Johnson

Forgive, oh Lord, my little jokes on thee, and I'll forgive thy great big one on me!

--Robert Frost