Zeno
07-15-2004, 12:27 AM
Notes on America:
I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital, but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. The word, which gives the key to the national vice, is waste.
-Henry Miller
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
-Oscar Wilde
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America
-George Bernard Shaw
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.
-Calvin Trillin
In American, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
-Peter Ustinov
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
-Jawaharlal Nehru
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
-George Santayana
I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital, but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. The word, which gives the key to the national vice, is waste.
-Henry Miller
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
-Oscar Wilde
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America
-George Bernard Shaw
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.
-Calvin Trillin
In American, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
-Peter Ustinov
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
-Jawaharlal Nehru
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
-George Santayana