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- Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
- Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
- We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
- Nick Faldo
- Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
- Jean Kerr
- I hate music, especially when it's played.
- Jimmy Durante (1893 - 1980)
- A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
- William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
- Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
- Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)
- Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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