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- The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), (Attributed)
- Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
- Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
- The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
- Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
- Who's Virginia?
- Rose Kennedy (1890 - 1995), when asked why her daughter-in-law Joan lived in Boston while her son Ted lived in Virginia
- Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.
- Ralph Nader (1934 - ), The Pacific Sun, March 21, 1981
- Harding was not a bad man, he was just a slob.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980), from Mrs. L. Conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth
- A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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