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- Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.
- Richard Nixon
- Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, "we must be realistic", they mean they are going to make money out of it.
- Brigid Brophy
- Never despise fashion. It's what we have instead of God.
- Malcolm Bradbury
- Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant.
- Kent "Sparky" Gregory
- Here's to our wives and sweethearts - may they never meet.
- John Bunny
- Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
- Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957)
- The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
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