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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
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Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), The Little Foxes, 1939
Complain to one who can help you.
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Yugoslav Proverb
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
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Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down.
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Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), inaugural address, January 20, 1961
Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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Bill Vaughan
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
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Peter McArthur
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
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John Lancaster Spalding
Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.
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Allan Goldfein
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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Saadi (1184 - 1291)
I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
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Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
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Franklin P. Jones
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
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Dalton Camp
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
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Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
Perseverance does not equal worthiness.
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Lawrence Kaplow, House M.D., Paternity, 2004
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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