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- When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
- There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
- Alice Thomas Ellis
- Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
- E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
- Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3
- Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
- John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
- I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
- Howard Dietz
- The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
- Virgil Thomson (1896 - 1989)
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