Juvenalian Quotes & Sayings

The world's most famous and popular language is music. — Psy

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually. — Barney Frank

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. — Jack Kerouac

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber. — Jane Porter

Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better. — David Walker

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it. — Karl Kraus

When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service reciprocation. — Julian Baggini

Chemical properties in the peat stop anything from rotting, so bogs are the "bank vaults" of Irish history, protecting whatever is put in them. A bog-cutter recently described finding a slab of butter, still edible after more than a hundred years. — Carmel McCaffrey

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives. — Todd Gitlin