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- An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.
- E.B. White
- A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
- Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
- Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
- Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
- Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.
- Jack Benny (1894 - 1974)
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