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- Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
- Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
- The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
- John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
- When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
- Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)
- Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
- Thomas Sowell (1930 - )
- A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
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