Reply #46: "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid...."

[MrBenchley]

"....but most stupid people are conservatives."
--John Stuart Mill

"Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence."
--George Santayana

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
--John Barrymore

"Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly he." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the mean-time I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters! Thy New Years' Days are past. I survive, a jolly candidate for 1821."
--Charles Lamb