In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain Category: Language
The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are drowning in the plethora. It – Anthony Burgess Category: Language
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. – Karl Kraus, translated from German by Harry Zohn Category: Language
In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable. – Manfred von Richthofen Category: car
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere. – Empedocles Category: Nature
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste. – Jerry Saltz Category: Art
