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- The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
- Saki (1870 - 1916)
- For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.
- W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, And Now All This (1932) introduction
- If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.
- Christina Stead (1903 - 1983), House of All Nations (1938) "Credo"
- I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
- In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952
- A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
- Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)
- Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), My Life and Hard Times (1933)
- Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
- You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God"
- The report of my death was an exaggeration.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), New York Journal, June 2, 1897
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