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- Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ), Social Studies (1981)
- It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
- Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995), One Fat Englishman (1963)
- Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
- But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
- At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
- Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
- I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)
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