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- I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
- Miguel Cervantes
- Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
- Robert Byrne
- Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944), 1912
- Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- I don't believe man is woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
- Shana Alexander
- Women are being considered as candidates for Vice President of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing that men will take it. A job with real power is First Lady. I'd be willing to run for that. As far as the men who are running for President are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
- Nora Ephron, from her San Francisco lecture, November 4, 1983
- The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?"
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
- Charles V
- Name me and emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
- Charles V
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