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- Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
- At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
- The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
- Drugs have taught an entire generation of Americans the metric system.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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