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- A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted Prose (1965)
- It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
- P. D. James
- It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
- Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)
- It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
- I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
- Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
- A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
- Robert Chapman
- Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
- Rick Polito, Marin Independent Journal's TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz"
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