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- The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
- Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
- Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953
- We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Canterville Ghost, 1882
- Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), speaking of Katharine Hepburn
- It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), in a letter to Winston Churchill
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