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- There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
- Charlotte Whitton, Canada Month, June 1963
- Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
- Robertson Davies
- Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
- Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
- Andy Rooney (1919 - )
- No man ever listened himself out of a job.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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