“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, ‘Why, why, why?’ Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.” — Kurt Vonnegut

“In every one of those little stucco boxes there’s some poor bastard who’s never free except when he’s fast asleep and dreaming that he’s got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.” — George Orwell

“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. The objection to it is not that it is predominantly painful, but that it is lacking in sense.” — H.L. Mencken

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” — George Carlin

“Aristophanes once wrote, roughly translated, ‘Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but STUPID lasts forever.’” — The Emperor’s Club

“Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.” — Bertrand Russell

“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.” — Voltaire

“When the revolution comes, Jesus Christ is going to be standing on the corner of Lennix Avenue and 125th Street, trying to catch the first gypsy cab out of Harlem; when the revolution comes.” — The Last Poets