Eight great quotes

1.A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man.In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he
becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.-H.L.Mencken
2.Patience is bitter,but its fruit is sweet.-Jean Jacques Rousseau
3.There is nothing fatherly about time and about what it does to us,either.-Dean Koontz,FOREVER ODD.
4.The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination,doesn't it?We're reminded
how thin is the veneer of civilisation.-Dean Koontz,ODD THOMAS.
5.No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune,and sloth is impervious to opportunity.-Dean Koontz,FOREVER ODD.
6.Many human beings need no spernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery;some people are devils in their own right,their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.-Dean Koontz,ODD THOMAS
7.One's certainty varies inversely with one's knowledge.-Bertrand Russell
8.The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels.For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed,and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.-Journalist H.L.Mencken