Quotes for April 27, 2011

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

Thanks Stephen.

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
-- P. G. Wodehouse

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
-- Robertson Davies

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
-- George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946