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- A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
- Robert Chapman
- The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
- Lord Peter Wimsey, "Gaudy Night"
- Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
- Rita Mae Brown
- If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.
- Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6
- I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'
- Margo Kaufman
- Bisonburger from the herd that appeared in 'Dances With Wolves.'
- On the menu at Al's Oasis in Oacama, South Dakota
- Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of dead cow.
- Bob Ekstrom, Pitt, MN
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