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- Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
- Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - 1827
- Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977), A Day at the Races - 1936
- When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.
- J.B. Priestley
- One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
- J.B. Priestley
- Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein.
- Guindon cartoon caption
- France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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