Menckens Mordant Sense Of Humor Quotes & Sayings

To get something, you must give something away.
To hold something, you must give something away.
To love something, you must give something away. — David Levithan

All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum. — A.E. Samaan

Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5. — Fiona Apple

The uncreative mind can spot the wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot the wrong questions The question has never been: Do we have the money? The question has always been: Do we have the resources? — Jacque Fresco

Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real. — Rachel Kushner

Nobody that has seen a baby born can believe in god for a second. When you see your child born, and the panic, and the amount of technology that is saving the life of the two people you love most in the world, when you see how much stainless steel and money it takes to fight off the fact that god wants both those people dead, no one, no one can look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say there's a god, because I'll tell ya, if we were squatting in the woods, the two people I love most would be dead. There's just no way around that. If I were in charge, no way. We need technology to fight against nature; nature so wants us dead. Nature is trying to kill us. — Penn Jillette

In a formal conversation in Ukraine, it is always correct to ask how things are, how life is; about your interlocutor's job and his or her ongoing projects. You should be prepared to hear "And what about you?" in return. Be ready to give an answer in the same way. It is simply a matter of politeness. — Trad Online

I've got nothing against gay marriage, it's not my issue. All right, I want homosexual Americans to be happy and to pursue happiness. — Bill O'Reilly

Listen more; talk less."
An executive once gave me this advice. I think it's a good thing for us all to keep in mind. — Mary Turner Heimstead

Let him keep his mouth closed, and shut up the portals (of his nostrils), and all his life he will be exempt from laborious exertion. — Lao-Tzu

Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way - the industrial, urbanized, herding way - to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one way. — Tom Robbins