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- During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- We've kept the good old vices and labored to invent a few, With cake in vulgar surplus we can have it, and eat it too
- Toy Matinee
- I and my public understand each other very well; it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
- Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
- The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
- Ronald Firbank
- We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
- Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin
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