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- A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 30
- A Hospital is no place to be sick.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), (attributed)
- A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
- Piet Hein (1905 - ), "Grooks"
- A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
- Saki (1870 - 1916), "The Square Egg", 1924
- A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
- Fats Domino (1928 - )
- A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
- George Wald (1906 - )
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