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- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
- Dame Edna Everage (1934 - ), In a television interview with Joan Rivers
- In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826)
- I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), The Waves (1931)
- What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
- Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004), Dear Me (1977)
- Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
- I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), (attributed)
- We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Mother Night
- I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
- Jack Handey (1949 - ), Deep Thoughts
- Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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