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- The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it.
- Sidney J. Harris
- People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
- Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
- Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Proper Studies", 1927
- The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.
- Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
- A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love, 1978
- People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), "Of Human Bondage", 1915
- If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.
- Pierre Gallois
- The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Orthodoxy; p. 14
- I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977), In the film A Day at the Races
- There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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