“A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, ''Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.''”
Marquis De Custine
“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”
Aristotle
“If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. there is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once you go southern may the good Lord help you - you never go back.”
Kenny Chesney
“If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.”
Werner von Braun
“Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading”
George Macaulay Trevelyan
