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- It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do.
- Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
- Fork, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
- Beilby Porteus, Death, A Poem
- If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
- Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - 1827
- Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977), A Day at the Races - 1936
- I'm a scientist; nothing shocks me.
- Indiana Jones
- When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H.G. Wells
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