Today Quotes
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For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class.Hans Konig
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.Nicholas Chamfort
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.A. Sachs
The world is proof that God is a committee.Bob Stokes
How should they answer?Abigail Van Buren in reply to the question: "Why do Jews always answer a question with a question?"
We were married by a reformed rabbi in Long Island. A very reformed rabbi. A Nazi.Woody Allen
If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."Margaret "Stevie" Smith
Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.Michel de Montaigne
A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.Jean de La Bruyere
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.Paul Valery