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- Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
- Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)
- A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.
- Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
- There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
- Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.
- Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
- I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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