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- It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
- Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995), One Fat Englishman (1963)
- Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
- At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
- Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
- It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), The Man Upstairs (1914)
- We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Maximes (1678)
- The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
- Stephen King (1947 - )
- A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
- Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)
- I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
- The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
- Woody Allen (1935 - ), Without Feathers (1976)
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