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- Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
- Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
- The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
- Doug Larson
- Silence is the virtue of fools.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
- A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
- John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
- I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
- Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - )
- It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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