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- A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
- Samuel McChord Crothers
- Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959
- Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
- I didn't really say everything I said.
- Yogi Berra (1925 - )
- I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
- Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.
- Marlo Thomas
- There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
- I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
- Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
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