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- The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- No, I haven't read the New Testament, but I read the Old Testament and liked it very, very much.
- One sheperd to another in a New Yorker cartoon
- Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
- Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
- George Miller
- Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Don't get the idea the I'm knocking the American system.
- Al Capone (1899 - 1947)
- America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism.
- Charles Lindberg Sr., 1915
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