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- What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
- George Dennison Prentice
- It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
- William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
- In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
- Rita Rudner
- You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
- Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
- Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
- Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
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