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Philosophy

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last! 

Jonathan Swift 1700-1745
Sociology

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay.   And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable, and help to change it.

Ernst Fischer

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable"

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Humor

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

Winston Churchill
Humor

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."

Clarence Darrow
About Trump

This quote by Falukner was originally uttered I'm reference to Ernest Hemingway, but could just as easily been referring to Trump:

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."

William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
Humor

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening.  But this wasn't it."

Groucho Marx
Humor

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."

Mark Twain
Humor

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."

Oscar Wilde
Humor

George Bernard Shaw:  "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... If you have one."

Churchill Responds:  "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second, if there is one."

George Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill
Humor

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."

Stephen Bishop
About Trump

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."

John Bright
Humor

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."

Irvin S. Cobb
About Trump

"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."

Samuel Johnson
About Trump

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."

Paul Keating
About Trump

"He had delusions of adequacy."

Walter Kerr
Humor

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"

Mark Twain
About Trump

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."

Mae West
About Trump

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."

Oscar Wilde
Humor

Lady Astor:  "Winston, if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee! "  

Winston: "Madam if I were your husband I would drink it!"

Lady Astor and Winston Churchill