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- I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
- Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
- The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 07-12-09
- Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.
- Yogi Berra (1925 - )
- Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
- Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.
- Marlo Thomas
- Sanity is a madness put to good use.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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