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- Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
- Julia Child on nouvelle cuisine
- It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
- Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
- A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- There are very few people who don't become more interesting when they stop talking.
- Mary Lowry in the Pacific Sun, November 15, 1985
- LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
- Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
- Robert Byrne
- A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
- H.H. Munro (Saki)
- "9W"
Answer to the question: Do you spell your name with a V, Mr. Vagner? - Steve Allen, from the Question Man segment on the Steve Allen Show
- Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
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