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- I know a mother-in-law who sleeps with her glasses on, the better to see her son-in-law suffer in her dreams.
- Ernest Coquelin
- Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
- Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.
- Women are being considered as candidates for Vice President of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing that men will take it. A job with real power is First Lady. I'd be willing to run for that. As far as the men who are running for President are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
- Nora Ephron, from her San Francisco lecture, November 4, 1983
- The vice-presidency ain't worth a pitcher of warm spit.
- Vice President John Nance Garner
- The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?"
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
- Benny Hill
- Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Jan. 3, 1861
- We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
- Artemus Ward (1834 - 1867)
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