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- I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. - Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Here Lies (1939), "The Little Hours"
- Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
- My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
- This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
- James Reston (1909 - ), New York Times, June 12 1968
- Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"
- You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times, Dec. 23, 1929
- Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Impact of Science on Society (1952) ch. 1
- Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944), "The Little Prince", 1943
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