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- If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
- Michael Friedman
- I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
- Rita Rudner
- Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
- Sue Murphy
- An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
- Conceit is God's gift to little men.
- Bruce Barton
- The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
- John Blake
- The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), in Edward R. Murrow television interview
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