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- Etymology, n.:
Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow." - Mike Kellen
- Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.
- Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
- The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
- G.K. Chesterton
- All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- I am not sincere, not even when I say I am not.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben
- When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
- W.S. Gilbert
- Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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