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- Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
- Nelson Algren (1909 - 1981), Newsweek, July 2, 1956
- When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960), Nods and Becks (1944)
- Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007), "Esquire", June 1960
- I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.
- Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994), In a press conference, November 11, 1973
- My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3
- The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
- Brevity is the soul of wit.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
- Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3
- By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks! - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1
- Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2
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