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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Tennessee Williams

The Timeless World of a Play

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Williams, Tennessee. "The Timeless World of a Play." The New York Times, 14 Mar. 1951.

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His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." The Knickerbocker. New York City: Lewis Gaylord Clark, Nov. 1840, I. 9.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 9.

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Simply because a problem can be shown to exist, it doesn't necessarily follow that there is a solution.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Quoted in Interavia Business & Technology. 1 Jan. 2001.

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It's the darkness that's got you down. Nobody feels really safe in the dark.

Rope

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Rope. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Transatlantic Pictures, 1948.

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I believe that in many cases the ideal size for the unit of control and organisation lies somewhere between the individual and the modern State. I suggest, therefore, that progress lies in the growth and the recognition of semi-autonomous bodies within the State.

John Maynard Keynes

The End of Laissez-faire

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Keynes, John Maynard. The End Of Laissez-faire. Hogarth Press, 1926, ch. 4.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The End of Laissaz-faire." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016, ch. 4.

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There is an invisible hand in politics that operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. In politics, individuals who seek to promote only the public good are led by an invisible hand to promote special interests that it was no part of their intention to promote.

Milton Friedman

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Friedman, Milton. Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.

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I was in the unenviable position of being for the war but against the troops.

Bill Hicks

Relentless

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Hicks, Bill. Relentless. July 1991, Centaur Theatre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Getting Married: For Better For Worse." The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, and The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. Brentano's/Constable & Co., 1908, preface.

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I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

Grover Norquist

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Norquist, Grover. Interviewed by Mara Liasson. NPR's Morning Edition. 25 May 2001.

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My friend said to me, "I think the weather's trippy." I said, "no man, it's not the weather that's trippy, perhaps it is the way that we perceive it that is indeed trippy." Then I thought "man, I shoulda just said 'yeah'."

Mitch Hedberg

Strategic Grill Locations

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Hedberg, Mitch. Strategic Grill Locations. 7 Sept. 1999, The Laff Stop Comedy Club, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line. In the discussion of its extent, its westward movement, etc., it can not, therefore, any longer have a place in the census reports.

Robert P. Porter

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On the closing of the American frontier.

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Porter, Robert P. Census Bureau's bulletin declaring the closing of the frontier. c. 1891.

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At present an iron curtain of silence has descended, cutting off the Russian zone from the Western Allies.

T. St. Vincent Troubridge

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A Curtain Across Europe

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Troubridge, Thomas. "A Curtain Across Europe." Empire News, 21 Oct. 1945.

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Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

David Lodge

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Lodge, David. The British Museum is Falling Down. MacGibbon & Kee, 1965, ch. 4.

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The newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people most people read. It is the only book they read every day.

Walter Lippmann

What Modern Liberty Means

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Lippmann, Walter. "What Modern Liberty Means." Liberty and the News. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1919.

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It had been boldly predicted by some of the early Christians that the conversion of the world would lead to the establishment of perpetual peace. In looking back, with our present experience, we are driven to the melancholy conclusion that, instead of diminishing the number of wars, ecclesiastical influence has actually and very seriously increased it.

William E.H. Lecky

History of European Morals

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Lecky, William Edward Hartpole. History of European Morals: From Augustus to Charlemagn. Vol. 2. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1869, ch. 4.

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I shall use the phrase "time's arrow" to express this one way property of time which has no analogue in space.

Arthur S. Eddington

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Eddington, Arthur. "The Nature Of The Physical World." Gifford lecture. January – March 1927, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.

Albert A. Michelson

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Michelson, Albert A. "Comparison of the Microscope and Telescope with the Interferometer." Light Waves and Their Uses lecture series. 1899, Lowell Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

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