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- A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
- Kurt Herbert Alder
- It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.
- Andy Gibb
- Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
- Mae West (1892 - 1980), Klondike Annie (1936 film)
- I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
- Garry Shandling (1949 - )
- I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
- An English Professor, Ohio University
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