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- It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
- Richard Pryor (1940 - 2005), Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004
- You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
- Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma
- The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
- Patrick Young
- If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em.
- Yogi Berra (1925 - ), as quoted by Joe Garagiola on the Jack Paar show, NBC 1963
- Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), Tender is the Night
- A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.
- David Coblitz
- The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
- Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
- Miss Piggy
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