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- People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
- Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), (Dear Abby)
- Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
- Charles Kuralt
- Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
- Biography lends to death a new terror.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
- Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989)
- Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
- E. B. White (1899 - 1985), Some Remarks on Humor, introduction
- I dote on his very absence.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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