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- Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.
- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
- The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
- Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor - unassisted.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
- Malcolm De Chazal
- Lactomangulation, n.:
Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the "illegal" side. - Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
- No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- You kids today have it easy. When I was a kid everything was HUGE. My dad was nearly four times bigger than me. You couldn't even see the tops of counters.... Then gradually everything became smaller until it was the manageable size it is today.
- Bizarro (comic strip)
- Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny -
Did you ever try buying them without money? - Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrong. The heads tend to be too big for the bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - ), Conversations With Gore Vidal - 1981
- My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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