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- If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
- Mickey Mantle (1931 - 1995), (attributed)
- People find life entirely too time-consuming.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
- Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Byrnes (1879 - 1972)
- The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion (1916) preface
- From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
- I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
- A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
- Peter McArthur
- Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
- Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
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