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Saturday, February 7, 2004

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself."
—J. B. Priestley,

Nunc scio quit sit amor.
—Virgil

I hope I never get so old I get religious.
—Ingmar Bergman

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
—Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Whiskey—I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it.
—Robert E. Lee

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
—Charles de Gaulle

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
—Groucho Marx

Where can one find a decent game of strip pong around here?
—A. J. Scott

Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
—John Simon

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
—Virginia Woolf

Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy, and dead.
—James Thurber

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day—and another, in case it doesn't rain.
—Mae West

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
—Serge Gainsbourg

The Bible has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.
—Mark Twain

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
—Otto von Bismarck

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
—Samuel Johnson

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
—Otto von Bismarck

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
—Ronald Reagan

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
—Moliere

A healthy ear can stand hearing sick words
—Senegalese Proverb

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
—Agatha Christie

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
—Charles Dickens

...but I was hungry...
—German Cannibal

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
—Will Rogers

If Karl, instead of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of it, it would have been much better.
—Karl Marx's Mother

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