"With ignorance and arrogance, success is assured."-Mark Twain

"There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can afford to, and when he can't."-Mark Twain

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."-George Carlin

"The sick do not ask if the hand that smooths their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin."-Oscar Wilde

"There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a bad peace."-Ben Franklin

"America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."-Hunter S. Thompson

"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there."-Thomas Hardy

"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it."
-John Adams (yes, that one)