Modest Proposal Quotes

#1. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.

Bill Bryson

#2. I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest Proposal pamphlet incorporated into Naked Lunch; these pamphlets have marked Naked Lunch as an obscene book.

William S. Burroughs

#3. The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. I make the modest proposal that psychiatric care should be as easy to get as bullets at Wal-Mart.

Andy Borowitz

#5. Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility

Garry Trudeau

#6. It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Aldous Huxley

#7. I have said consistently in my 16-and-a-half years in the parliament, I have always supported the party room's decision and the party room is the ultimate authority on these matters. I don't expect that to change.

Nick Minchin

#8. Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.

Ian Allison

#9. The beauty with modest smile, whose secrecy of silent love had just been stolen, beamed at this wonderful offer and she replenished herself with his love as a carefree child cossetted with luxurious warmth after a cold shower.

Ashmita Acharya

#10. Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

John Cage

#11. Little absent from everything in the way of a Zen Master actually who realizes that everything is indifferent anyway,

Jack Kerouac

#12. I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has never been a day like that.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#13. Walter Lippmann was once asked his views on a particular topic, he is said to have replied, I don't know what I think on that one. I haven't written about it yet.

Fareed Zakaria

#14. Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

Albert Einstein