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- Adventure is just bad planning.
- Roald Amundsen (1872 - 1928)
- The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 09-07-06
- In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.
- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
- Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
- Stephen King (1947 - ), "Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes", 1988
- The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.
- George Best
- Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007), Armies Of The Night
- There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007), Armies Of The Night
- I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005), Comedy Central Presents
- With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?'
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
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