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- An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
- Matthew Green (c. 1737)
- I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".
- H. Allen Smith
- Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
- Sir Robert Hutchison
- It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
- Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)
- Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
- G.K. Chesterton
- Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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