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- Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), My Life and Hard Times (1933)
- Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
- Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993), quoted in Linda Botts, "Loose Talk" (1980)
- 1. Never tell everything at once.
- Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two Great Rules of Life
- A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 30
- A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), (attributed)
- A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
- Fats Domino (1928 - )
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