August One-Liners
Here are August’s additions to the one-liners collection:
- “Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.” - Peter Ustinov
- “I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.” -
VoltaireEvelyn Beatrice Hall - “In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.” - John Lilly
- “The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.” - Arnold H. Glascow
- “Truth above all, even when it upsets and overwhelms us.” - Henri Frédéric Amie
- Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.
- Why do you press harder on a remote control when you know the battery is dead?
- “A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.” - Robert Frost
- “If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable.” - John F. Kennedy
- “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.” - Demonax
- To worry about tomorrow is to be unhappy today.
- “There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house.” - Joe Ryan
- “If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.” (Yugoslav proverb)
- “One kind word can warm three winter months.” (Japanese proverb)
- “It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.” - Georges Duhamel
- Never forget that your weapon is made by the lowest bidder.
- “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” - Ambrose Bierce
- “Love cures people; both the ones who give it, and the ones who receive it.” - Dr. Karl Menninger
- “Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution yet.” - Mae West.
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KerdyI always like your one-liners, but this time I do not agree with the Voltaire one, who originated from Evelyn Beatrice Hall in her biography of the man in 1906. That’s the problem with quotes, you can never truly be sure .__.
Other than that, I still love them.
Good catch. I’ve updated the source of the quote accordingly. Thanks.
