"People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups."

-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Numbers Quotes #People Quotes #Groups Quotes

“If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.”
“It's not often that you see a smile on the face of the Viper, but it actually looks good on there.”
“I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?”
“Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.”
“Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What... happened?" Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.”
“I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth, it doesn't matter.”
“I like bowling. It's just one of those things where I can do so many jokes about it because I do know bowling. Somebody once said, "The whitest things in the world are Jim Gaffigan and bowling."”
“Most true things are kind of corny, donâ€™t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.”

Source : Michel Faber (2014). “The Book of Strange New Things”, p.100, Canongate Books

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