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- The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), "The Dance of Life", 1923
- Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
- Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832)
- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "Walden", 1854
- To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.
- Janeane Garofalo
- People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
- America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
- Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
- Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
- We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
- Book of Common Prayer, Morning Prayer
- We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.
- Peter De Vries
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