So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
George Orwell

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
George Orwell

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
Amelia Earhart

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.
Jack LaLanne

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
P. J. O'Rourke

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
P. J. O'Rourke

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.
Clint Eastwood

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.
Gilda Radner

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise Pascal

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
Blaise Pascal

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
John Keats

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.
Dennis Miller

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.
Dennis Miller

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.
Noam Chomsky

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
Woody Allen