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- Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.
- Jerome Lettvin
- Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say.
- Benjamin Jowett
- Pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think that she's attractive to the opposite sex.
- Earl Wilson
- There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.
- P.J. O'Rourke (commenting on _Moby Dick_)
- He grounds the warship he walks on.
- John Bracken on Captain Barney Kelly, who ran the USS Enterprise into the mud of San Francisco Bay in May 1983
- Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."
(crosses stream)
"As I thought," he said, "no better from this side." - Eeyore (A. A. Milne)
- Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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