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- America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism.
- Charles Lindberg Sr., 1915
- I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
- G.K. Chesterton
- I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
- For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)
- Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
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