Smart Mouths 74

Collected by Staff of Magellan's Log

There’s one thing I’ve learned in life and this is: What do you put on every day other than clothing that expresses who you are? Only your car.
                                           —Jon Titman, Sales Manager, E&G Classic Inc.
                                               World’s largest maker of add-on vinyl tops.

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
                                                                             —Thomas Paine.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
                                                                             —Jonathan Swift.

I have examined all the known superstitions of the Word, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the world...
                                                                             —Thomas Jefferson.

Whenever I hear the word "culture," I reach for my gun.
                                                                             —Herman Göring.

All humans are out of their fucking minds—every single one of them
                                                                             —Albert Ellis, 2003.

Correggio is the only artist ever to have depicted the anus and scrotum of an airborne angel.
                                                                             —Germaine Greer.

Large nations do what they wish, while small nations accept what they must.
                                                                             —Thucydides.

In an era of circuses, the one with the most clowns wins.
                                                                             —Richard Kadrey.

Laissez verdure ("Leave greenery").
                                           —Last words of George Sand (1804-1876).