Quotes from Gregg Loomis

Damnant quod non intelligunt." They condemn what they do not understand.

The French: Our national flag is the tricolor; our battle flag a single color: white.

Divorced, they uniformly decried the size of their alimony checks and the injustice of their prenups while refusing to seek gainful employment. Instead

They searched endlessly for lifestyle support systems in the form of eligible men. No wealthy male was exempt. Age or infirmity of the prey was no detriment, as both potentially shortened the wait before inheritance. Many

Iran's been in the Stone Age for decades. You checked out their politics?

Like John Kennedy said, though, 'Forgive thy enemies but remember their names.

Where ignorance is bliss…" " 'Tis folly to be wise.

The physical laws of the universe were in effect long before the pharaohs. The ancients were aware of many and knew how to use some. Much of that knowledge was lost during the Dark Ages. A lot of that wisdom remains to be rediscovered.

With verbs randomly scattered about instead of neatly stacked at the end of each sentence, verbs that had no real endings, and nondeclension nouns, the language was oral chaos.

Scarlett O'Hara was a steel magnolia, not a New Woman.

I'm an American, remember? I'm used to my government spying on me.

Odd what sticks to our memory, sort of an arbitrary choice made by the subconscious.

Unlike many such recipients of government largesse, however, she had qualifications beyond race, sex, and religion.

Simpson had not one but two inconveniently living husbands. Hence, the abdication and the romance at a time when the world could most use news that was not threatening, if not downright frightening. Edward exchanged his crown for the title Duke of Windsor. There were rumors Wallace was less than satisfied with the title of Duchess, that bigger

The meek might someday inherit the earth but it will be one that doesn't remember them. Lang

Most Londoners did not know that, on average, their likenesses were transmitted forty times a day as they commuted to and from work, ran errands between buildings or simply window-shopped. The cameras were a legacy of IRA terrorism.

With lawyers breeding lawsuits faster than maggots in dead flesh, a new pestilence had taken over the country, a fifth horseman of the American apocalypse: Litigation, the paper death by which the victim hemorrhaged his assets until both reputation and finances were ruined. Frequently even the vaccine of insurance was not a sufficient preventative. Cover Your Ass had replaced E Pluribus Unum as the national motto.

Amicus est tanquam alter idem, a friend is just like a second self

No federal crime, no warrant. No matter what you may think of the post-nine-eleven security laws, we still have a Constitution.

The Church had, after all, survived Galileo, Luther, and Darwin. Even Dan Brown.

The Germans have national amnesia where the war is concerned.

there were too few people around who viewed history as something older than last week's People magazine.