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Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow.": Mike Kellen
Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.: Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.: Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
The Green Party is like a watermelon - green on the outside and red on the inside.: Rep. Bill Dannemeyer, R-Fullerton
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.: Biologist P. B. Medawar
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.: Ernest Haskins
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

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