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- There ought to be a room in every house to swear in.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
- Florida Scott-Maxwell
- The trouble with my wife is that she is a whore in the kitchen and a cook in the bed.
- Geoffrey Gorer
- There you stand like a duck in a thunderstorm again - aren't you ever going to understand?
- W.A. Mozart
- I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
- William F. Buckley Jr.
- When I became President, what surprised me most was that things were just as bad as I'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)
- Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
- Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.
- Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
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