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- Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.
- James Burke
- There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
- Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
- It's not his fault that he's the rear end of a pantomime horse.
- Vincent Manis
- Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
- Carl Zwanzig
- If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
- The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."
- Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
- It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him.
- John Barth (1930 - )
- Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
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