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- I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. Galento, may he r3est in peace. Giardello, LaMotta, Carmen Basilio. What a sweetheart Basilio is. They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!
- Willie Pastrano
- It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
- The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.
- Jean Baptiste Colbert
- The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937)
- It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.
- Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park.
- We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
- Lord Acton
- A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
- James Beard
- LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
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