Beauty
Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought
Is therapeutic.

If, after several
Applications, you do not find
Relief, consult your family physician


Robert Penn Warren

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Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
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The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can s...
PENN JILLETTE
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is no...
PENN JILLETTE
I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I've read it three times all the way t...
PENN JILLETTE
Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced...
PENN JILLETTE
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
WILLIAM PENN
It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a ye...
PENN JILLETTE
Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects,...
PENN JILLETTE
The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity ...
PENN JILLETTE
No one can tell you the rules of 'Celebrity Apprentice.' No one. Donald Trump just does what...
PENN JILLETTE
Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're b...
PENN JILLETTE
I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark,...
PENN JILLETTE
I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're bein...
SEAN PENN
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or disc...
SEAN PENN
Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separ...
SEAN PENN
I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid ...
PENN JILLETTE
I realize I stare at everyone, especially when I'm walking down the street. I'm just a curio...
PENN BADGLEY
It's only the losers named 'Dave' that think having an unusual name is bad, and who care...
PENN JILLETTE
The Venezuelan government is required to provide diplomatic protection under the Vienna Convention o...
BRIAN PENN
It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.
BRIAN PENN
The motorcyclists were throwing things at us for at least 10 minutes, and the police did nothing. It...
BRIAN PENN
It's a very violent demonstration by a small group of people who appear to be organized by the mayor...
BRIAN PENN
We're being attacked by groups of motorcyclists while we're traveling in an embassy car.
BRIAN PENN
It's an internal matter for Venezuela.
BRIAN PENN
We've received no communication from the Venezuelan government on this issue ... It's an internal ma...
BRIAN PENN
He had hundreds of friends. He was the most generous person you knew.
BRIAN PENN
Government officials did not allow them off the plane, and that's the cause of the canceled visit.
BRIAN PENN
It was loud, hostile and somewhat threatening. There were burning tires, loud firecrackers and obsce...
BRIAN PENN
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
WILLIAM PENN
Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him.
PENN JILLETTE
But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so s...
PENN JILLETTE
I'm very happy being big and effeminate.
PENN JILLETTE
You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. Accepting his Independent Spirit Award
SEAN PENN
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
WILLIAM PENN
God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways.
PENN JILLETTE
I don't travel in circles where people say, 'I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing yo...
PENN JILLETTE
Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex,...
PENN JILLETTE
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point d...
PENN JILLETTE
Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.
PENN JILLETTE
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
WILLIAM PENN
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
WILLIAM PENN
Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
WILLIAM PENN
If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.
WILLIAM PENN
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to...
WILLIAM PENN
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unles...
WILLIAM PENN
A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
WILLIAM PENN
She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
WILLIAM PENN
Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen
WILLIAM PENN
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live w...
WILLIAM PENN
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman w...
WILLIAM PENN
A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him
WILLIAM PENN
When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.&...
PENN JILLETTE
Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.
PENN JILLETTE
I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosp...
PENN JILLETTE
I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of ...
PENN JILLETTE
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
WILLIAM PENN
They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice
WILLIAM PENN