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- Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944), 1912
- Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- I don't believe man is woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
- Shana Alexander
- Women are being considered as candidates for Vice President of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing that men will take it. A job with real power is First Lady. I'd be willing to run for that. As far as the men who are running for President are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
- Nora Ephron, from her San Francisco lecture, November 4, 1983
- The vice-presidency ain't worth a pitcher of warm spit.
- Vice President John Nance Garner
- The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
- Benny Hill
- It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.
- Richard J. Ferris, president, United Airlines
- Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Jan. 3, 1861
- If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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