“A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.”
– H. L. Mencken


Thoughts of an old curmudgeon
“A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.”
– H. L. Mencken

“It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.”
– Eugene McCarthy

“A band is essentially a drummer and a bassist plus assorted novelty acts.”
– Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason

“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”
– P. J. O’Rourke

“We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.”
– Dave Barry
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“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
– Douglas Adams

“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
– Carl Sagan
“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
– Elizabeth Taylor

“I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.”
– Jack Benny

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