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- Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
- Bruce Grocott (1940 - )
- Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
- Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973)
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
- Nora Ephron
- Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
- Frantz Fanon
- The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
- There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
- James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958)
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