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- Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?
- Quentin Crisp
- Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.
- Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
- The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
- G.K. Chesterton
- Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
- Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.
- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
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