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- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
- People find life entirely too time-consuming.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
- The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion (1916) preface
- From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
- A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
- Peter McArthur
- In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
- Paul Harvey
- Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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