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- I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.
- Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
- As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.
- Bill Watterson (1958 - ), The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, 2005, Introduction
- When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
- Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
- Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)
- The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.
- Mel Lazarus
- Two people kissing always look like fish.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
- Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
- Professor Irwin Corey (1914 - )
- Every law is an infraction of liberty.
- Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832)
- Nothing says, 'I have no idea what to get you,' quite like giant beige bath towels.
- Missbhavens, the miscellaneous mischievous misadventures of missbhavens, 05-05-07
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