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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. ~H.L. Mencken



What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ~Henry Havelock Ellis



We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules. ~Buzzie Bavasi



America is a mistake, a giant mistake. ~Sigmund Freud



Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ~George Bernard Shaw



A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. ~Bil Keane, "Family Circus"



A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ~Paul Valery, Mauvaises pensees et autres, 1942



Brevity is the soul of lingerie. ~Dorothy Parker



When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better." ~Alistair Cooke When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better." ~Alistair Cooke When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day. ~Congo Proverb



It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety. ~Thomas de Quincy, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1856



Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.... ~H.G. Wells, The Undying Fire



A Hibernian sage once wrote that there are three things a man never forgets: The girl of his early youth, a devoted teacher, and a great horse. ~C.J.J. Mullen



Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, "Maxims: Education," 1905



Sports is human life in microcosm. ~Howard Cosell



A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. ~Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous, 1957



It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot. ~Nubar Gulbenkian, 1972



Many persons wonder why they don't amount to more than they do, have good stuff in them, energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts. ~Walter J. Johnston



In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9



I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. ~Woodrow Wilson