"There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam."

“Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.”

“The purpose of economic theory is to make those who are comfortable FEEL comfortable.”

“I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.”

“Never patronise someone who knows they don't deserve it, for they will be quick to compliment your failures.”

“The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.”

Source : Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”

“Dear Humanity; we regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!”

“I don't rely on the media. I usually average one speech a day for 25 years. People know me because I'm out there.”

“There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray.”

Source : Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear (2004). “Utter Nonsense: Selected Poems of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear”, p.29, Lonely Scribe