“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” – Calvin Trillin


Thoughts of an old curmudgeon
“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” – Calvin Trillin

“As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.”
– Gregory Maguire

“No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.”
– Finley Peter Dunne


“I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful, and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.”
– Shelley Winters

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
– J. R. R. Tolkien

“We don’t bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don’t dress well and we’ve no manners.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.”
– David Coblitz

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.”
– Doug Larson
