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No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
- Jascha Heifetz
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- H. L. Mencken
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
- Havelock Ellis
We are none of us infallible - not even the youngest of us.
- W. H. Thompson
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
- Sir Arnold Bax, Farewell my Youth (1943)
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- Thomas Jones
As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
- H. Rider Haggard
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
- Niels Bohr
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
- John Maynard Keynes
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
- Doris Day
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
- Sir Winston Churchill
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
- Quentin Crisp
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
- G. K. Chesterton
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
- Fred Allen
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
- Sir Francis Bacon
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
- C. P. Snow
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