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- It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons.
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
- It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I once said cynically of a politician, "He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it"
- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
- The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.
- Louis Ferdinand Celine
- The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
- Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no use being a damned fool about it.
- William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
- California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.
- William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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