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A room without books is like a body without a soul
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| Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
- Alan Corenk | comments: Leave a comment   |
| We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
- W. H. Auden | | comments: Leave a comment |
| The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
- Edwin Schlossberg | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
- George Carlin | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
- Evan Esar | | comments: Leave a comment |
| The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
- Dudley Moore | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
- Lane Olinghouse | | comments: Leave a comment |
| If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France | | comments: Leave a comment |
| 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 | | comments: Leave a comment |
| We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
- Judith Martin | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.
- Leslie Nielsen | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
- Wilson Mizner | | comments: Leave a comment |
| He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- Saki | | comments: Leave a comment |
| There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.
- Jeph Jacques | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
- Emo Phillips | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
- W. Somerset Maugham | | comments: Leave a comment |
| The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
- Shana Alexander | | comments: Leave a comment |
| An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.
- Jef Mallett | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
- Artemus Ward | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
- Mark Twain | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
- Miss Piggy | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- Oscar Wilde | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
- Emo Phillips | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
- Doug Larson | | comments: Leave a comment |
| No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
- Michel de Montaigne | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Living hell is the best revenge.
- Adrienne E. Gusoff | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
- Will Rogers | | comments: Leave a comment |
| The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
- Henry Kissinger | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
- Beryl Pfizer | | comments: Leave a comment |
| An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
- Dan Rather | | comments: Leave a comment |
| There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | | comments: Leave a comment |
| "I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs."
-- Madonna | | comments: Leave a comment |
| When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
- Bernard Bailey | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
- Sam Brown | | comments: Leave a comment |
| People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
- Russell Baker | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
- Thomas H. Huxley | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
- Evan Esar | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
- Putt's Law | | comments: Leave a comment |
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