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- What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
- Ted Morgan
- There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
- We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.
- Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
- There are more of them than us.
- Herb Caen
- I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), quoted in Saturday Review, Aug. 25, 1962
- I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
- E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970), as a small child
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