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- A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), in Observer, April 13, 1958
- Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959
- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Mostly Harmless
- Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Man of La Mancha
- Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
- Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle
- If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)
- Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
- Jim Horning
- You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)
- Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), In Life of Oscar Wilde, H. Pearson
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