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- If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
- Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
- Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
- Robert Byrne
- Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.
- Richter cartoon caption
- I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Men who never get carried away should be.
- Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
- Some things have to be believed to be seen.
- Ralph Hodgson, on ESP
- Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
- Mae West (1892 - 1980), Klondike Annie (1936 film)
- Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.
- Solomon Short
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