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Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.: Blake Clark
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.: Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
Avoid falsehoods like the plague except in matters of taxation, which do not count, since here your are not lying to take someone else's goods, but to prevent your own from being unjustly seized.: (Giovanni Morelli)
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.
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.: Eduard Hanslick
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), (Attributed)
Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), quoting a friend
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.: Bellamy Brooks
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.: Robert Byrne

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