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- One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
- People find life entirely too time-consuming.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
- Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Byrnes (1879 - 1972)
- The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion (1916) preface
- From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
- A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
- Peter McArthur
- Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
- Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
- Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
- Lee Simonson
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