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- I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
- Chief Justice Earl Warren
- People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon.
Let others say his heart is big,
I think it stupid of the Pig. - Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), "The Pig"
- I told you 'bout the fool on the hill
I tell you man he livin' there still
Now here's another place you can be
Listen to me
Fixin' a hole in the ocean
Tryin' to make a dovetail joint
Look into a glass onion. - The Beatles "Glass Onion"
- In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
- Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)
- The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
- Quentin Crisp
- One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
- Wilfrid Sheed
- The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
- John Barrymore's dying words
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