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- I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
- Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
- Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"
- My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
- A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.
- Frank Westheimer, Westheimers Discovery
- There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface
- The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Model Millionaire, 1912
- Why was I born with such contemporaries?
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
- George F. Will (1941 - )
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