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- A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized.
- John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
- It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
- The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
- Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
- Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
- Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
- A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
- Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939)
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