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- Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
- Doug Larson
- If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
- Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
- Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
- Cullen Hightower
- Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.
- Tom Masson
- We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
- Shana Alexander
- There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
- What happens when the future has come and gone?
- Robert Half
- The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebook, 1935
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