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- If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
- Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)
- I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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