
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 52
Coast-to-Coast AM interview (August 2-3, 2000)
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 52
“Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.”
To Mme. Streicher, in 1817, or 1818, after having dismissed an otherwise good housekeeper because she had told a falsehood to spare his feelings. in Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words http://www.fullbooks.com/Beethoven-the-Man-and-the-Artist-as-Revealed2.html by Ludwig van Beethoven, edited by Friedrich Kerst
Attributed
Variant: Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
“Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle.”
October 1991, quoted in the Tri-City Herald, published in Kennewick, Washington.
Former Gov. Dixy Lee Ray, speaking at a Forward Washington conference in Pasco, warned her audience against misuse of statistics. The Tri-City Herald quoted the always quotable Ray as saying: 'Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle.' — Jean Godden, " How Many Lawyers Do You Need To Fry Spam? http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19911009&slug=1309893", October 9, 1991, Seattle Times. Accessed 29 August 2012.
Writings, The Foundations of Social Order (1968)
“I would hope it is a when, as opposed to an if. How about Gene Simmons?”
On who he would like to see as the band's presents if Soundgarden ever gets inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. HBO Q&A session, quoted in ** Chris Cornell Would Like Gene Simmons to Induct Soundgarden Into Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame, Ultimate Guitar, May 21, 2013 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/chris_cornell_would_like_gene_simmons_to_induct_soundgarden_into_rnr_hall_of_fame.html,
On the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”
“Personally, I would forgo any other comfort to drink clean water.”
Source: The Life Of My Choice (1987), p. 153.
Mahatma Gandhi, "Sarojini the Singer", 1 December 2013, MK Gandhi Organization http://www.mkgandhi.org/Selected%20Letters/Sarojini/singer.htm,