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- It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
- The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Mostly Harmless"
- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
- John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"
- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed; also attributed to Ann Landers)
- When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
- Bernard Bailey
- 'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.
- George Ade (1866 - 1944), "The Steel Box", 1898
- If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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