Harry Shearer
“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?”
“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?”
“I am just going outside and may be some time.”
“A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.”
“You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.”
“All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”
“I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
“Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.”
“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”
“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.”
“People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.”