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- No good deed goes unpunished.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
- Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- Health food makes me sick.
- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
- I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
- Charlotte Whitton, Canada Month, June 1963
- Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
- Robertson Davies
- Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
- Norman Douglas
- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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