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- The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself
- Sir Richard F. Burton
- Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- 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)
- I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.
- Don Quinn
- I can't seem to bring myself to say, "Well, I guess I'll be toddling along." It isn't that I can't toddle. It's that I can't guess I'll toddle.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin."
- Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy
- The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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