"As our president bears no resemblance to a king so we shall see the Senate has no similitude to nobles. First, not being hereditary, their collective knowledge, wisdom, and virtue are not precarious. For by these qualities alone are they to obtain their offices, and they will have none of the peculiar qualities and vices of those men who possess power merely because their father held it before them."

-- Tench Coxe

#Kings Quotes #Father Quotes #Men Quotes

“With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. August 31, 2010.
“The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.”
“Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality.”
“We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.”
“The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right.”
“Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.”
“Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.”

Source : Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”
“Everybody has a heart. Except some people.”

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