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- Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed. - A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)
- The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.
- Garry Trudeau (1948 - )
- An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
- Finley Peter Dunne (1867 - 1936)
- The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans.
- Finley Peter Dunne (1867 - 1936)
- The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.
- Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
- As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.
- Bill Watterson (1958 - ), The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, 2005, Introduction
- When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
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