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“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.”
Frank Zappa
“I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.”
Henny Youngman
“I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.”
Henny Youngman
“I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.”
Henny Youngman
“My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.”
Henny Youngman
“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.”
Henny Youngman
“Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.”
Corliss Lamont
“I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.”
Corliss Lamont
“Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.”
Corliss Lamont
“Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.”
Corliss Lamont
“The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.”
Corliss Lamont
“The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.”
Corliss Lamont
“The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.”
Corliss Lamont
“The intuition of free will gives us the truth.”
Corliss Lamont
“True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.”
Corliss Lamont
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
Voltaire
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.”
Voltaire
“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
Voltaire
“God is always on the side of the big battalions.”
Voltaire
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
Voltaire
“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”
Voltaire
“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”
Voltaire
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
Voltaire
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”
Voltaire
“Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.”
Voltaire
“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
Voltaire
“The secret of being boring is to say everything.”
Voltaire
“To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.”
Voltaire
“I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.”
Antonio Banderas
“I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.”
Antonio Banderas