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Vaudeville.
    However, it is our latest medium--we call it a medium because nothing's
    well done. It was discovered, I suppose you've heard, by a man named
    Fulton Berle, and it has already revolutionized social grace by cutting
    down parlour conversation to two sentences: "What's on television?" and
    "Good night."
    Letter to Groucho Marx, in The Groucho Letters (1967) p. 114
    1.4 Dean Acheson =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1893-1971
    The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not
    always easy to achieve.
    In Observer 21 June 1970
    I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful
    employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public
    office.
    In Time 22 Dec. 1952
    Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
    Speech at the Military Academy, West Point, 5 Dec. 1962, in Vital
    Speeches 1 Jan. 1963, p. 163
    A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the
    writer.
    In Wall Street Journal 8 Sept. 1977
    1.5 J. R. Ackerley =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1896-1967
    I was born in 1896 and my parents were married in 1919.
    My Father and Myself (1968) ch. 1
    1.6 Douglas Adams =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1952-
    Don't panic.
    Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) preface
    "Life," said Marvin, "don't talk to me about Life."
    Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) ch. 11
    And of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left
    hand side.
    Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) ch. 13
    The Answer to the Great Question Of....Life, the Universe and
    Everything....Is....Forty-two.
    Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) ch. 27
    "The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second
    ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't
    enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline."
    Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980) ch. 18
    1.7 Frank Adams and Will M. Hough =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    I wonder who's kissing her now.
    Title of song (1909)
    1.8 Franklin P. Adams =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1881-1960
    When the political columnists say "Every thinking man" they mean
    themselves, and when candidates appeal to "Every intelligent voter" they
    mean everybody who is going to vote for them.
    Nods and Becks (1944) p. 3
    Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead centre of middle age. It
    occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to
    the net.
    Nods and Becks (1944) p. 53
    The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who
    believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of
    the people all of the time.
    Nods and Becks (1944) p. 74
    Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote
    against somebody rather than for somebody.
    Nods and Becks (1944) p. 206
    1.9 Henry Brooks Adams =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1838-1918
    Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the
    systematic organization of hatreds.
    Education of Henry Adams (1907) ch. 1
    A friend in power is a friend lost.
    Education of Henry Adams (1907) ch. 7
    Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
    Education of Henry Adams (1907) ch. 16
    One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
    Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a
    rivalry of aim.
    Education of Henry Adams (1907) ch. 20
    What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know
    how to learn.
    Education of Henry Adams (1907) ch. 21
    Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
    Education of Henry Adams (1907) ch. 22
    Some day science may have the existence of