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- For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
- Jay Leno (1950 - )
- A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
- Samuel McChord Crothers
- I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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