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- We've kept the good old vices and labored to invent a few, With cake in vulgar surplus we can have it, and eat it too
- Toy Matinee
- I and my public understand each other very well; it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
- Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
- If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
- Ronald Firbank
- An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.
- E.B. White
- A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
- Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
- Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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