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- The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
- G.K. Chesterton
- The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
- Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
- Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
- What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
- I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
- Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Man is more ape than many of the apes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
- Wernher von Braun commenting on bureaucracy
- It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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