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- I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
- Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
- A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
- Robert Chapman
- Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
- Rick Polito, Marin Independent Journal's TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz"
- The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it.
- Sidney J. Harris
- People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
- Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
- Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Proper Studies", 1927
- A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love, 1978
- People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), "Of Human Bondage", 1915
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