Burt Prelutsky Quotes

#1. Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.

Carolee Dean

#2. You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.

Hunter S. Thompson

#3. Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with Jews building houses in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran.

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#4. In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.

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#5. The word "preacher" comes from an old French word, predicateur, which means prophet. And what is the purpose of a prophet except to find meaning in trouble?

Marilynne Robinson

#6. Finally, it occurs to me that the biggest problem with our elections is that however you vote, you wind up electing a politician.

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#7. A Book Keeper! Gods of the word, they are. Finest of the brave. You know, it's them that keep books, (he says) that know things in the end.

Simon P. Clark

#8. You're fond, I imagine of your right eye? I mean, you've gone to the trouble of putting make up on it.

Glen Duncan

#9. I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.

Ralph Abernathy

#10. The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn't work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they're convinced it does.

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#11. It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.

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#12. We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.

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#13. Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.

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#14. The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies; now it had a third, the mountains.

Bernard DeVoto

#15. Even when I think I'm wrong I'm right. I am all-knowing.

Rush Limbaugh

#16. Form, not the crashing waves far below at the base of the cliff. She looked eerily like the sketch that Kenneth had drawn of

Mary Jo Putney

#17. If liberals didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.

Burt Prelutsky