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- The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
- Jane Wagner/Lily Tomlin
- It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do.
- Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
- Fork, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977), A Day at the Races - 1936
- Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
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