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- My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
- Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977)
- Remember the generational battles twenty years ago? Remember all the screaming at the dinner table about haircuts, getting jobs and the American dream? Well, our parents won. They're out living the American dream on some damned golf course in Vero Beach, and we're stuck with the jobs and haircuts.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you.
- George Bush (1924 - ), to convention of National Religious Broadcasters
- God must hate common people, because he made them so common.
- Philip Wylie
- One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
- James Agate
- There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist- the taxidermist leaves the hide.
- Mortimer Caplin
- A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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