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- Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
- Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940), Diary in Exile (1959)
- Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)
- I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
- Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
- Woody Allen (1935 - ), Without Feathers (1976)
- When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
- William Wrigley Jr. (1861 - 1932)
- About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
- My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
- Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Journal of a Character, 1931
- Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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