Quotes Library

June 3, 2025

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

E. E. Cummings (1884–1962), American poet, 1×1 (1944), no.10, Jay p.107

Do you think that’s a fair assessment of you, and all other politicians?

Why is it that persons who have made a mark in one profession believe they are competent to judge others of a different profession? Do you ask your doctor to rate your lawyer? Your baker to do a performance review on your butcher? One thing is certain: some poets are idiots.


More Quotes

June 12, 2025
The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act
September 13, 2025
[Of the fictional British cabinet minister Jim Hacker] Years of political training and experience had taught him to use twenty words where one would do
August 30, 2025
00:57
Since a rational creature cannot be supposed, when free, to put himself in subjection to another for his own harm
Page 120 of 124