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- If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
- I think, therefore Descartes exists.
- Saul Steinberg
- It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him.
- John Barth (1930 - )
- Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
- Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
- It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.
- Pierre Auguste Renoir
- No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
- Florida Scott-Maxwell
- I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
- William F. Buckley Jr.
- I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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