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- If we weren't all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Truth is subject to too much analysis.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
- Candy
Is dandy But liquor Is quicker. - Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), "Reflections on Ice-Breaking"
- The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- Nice guys finish last.
- Leo Durocher (1906 - 1991), (attributed, see notes)
- I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.
- Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
- As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.
- Bill Watterson (1958 - ), The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, 2005, Introduction
- When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
- Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)
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