"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
Tacitus
"No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
Ayn Rand
"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."
Stephen Leacock
"Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital."
Aaron Levenstein
"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."
Groucho Marx
"Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another."
Ambrose Bierce,
The Devil's Dictionary
"Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer."
Dave Barry