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- If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth.
- Robert N. Coons
- If the young only knew; if the old only could.
- French Proverb
- If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it.
- Ezra Bowen
- If there is another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
- Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
- Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), "Of Death"
- Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Revolutions always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.
- Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
- Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits.
- Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
- Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
- Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
- It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
- Terry Pratchett, Jingo
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