Russell Baker
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Published: October 22, 2024 00:00
"People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately."
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Russell Baker
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Published: October 22, 2024 00:00
"People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately."
Thomas Merton
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Published: October 22, 2024 00:00
"The least of learning is done in the classrooms."
Samuel Goldwyn
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Published: October 22, 2024 00:00
"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."
W. C. Fields
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Published: October 22, 2024 00:00
"Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water."
Rita Rudner
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Published: October 21, 2024 00:00
"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."
Elbert Hubbard
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Published: October 21, 2024 00:00
"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Published: October 21, 2024 00:00
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
Christopher Morley
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Published: October 21, 2024 00:00
"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it."
H. L. Mencken
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Published: October 20, 2024 00:00
"The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."
Fran Lebowitz
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Published: October 20, 2024 00:00
"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special."
Ellen DeGeneres
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Published: October 20, 2024 00:00
"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better."
Robert Heinlein
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Published: October 20, 2024 00:00
"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
Laurence J. Peter
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Published: October 19, 2024 00:00
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."
George Carlin
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Published: October 19, 2024 00:00
"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."
Will Rogers
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Published: October 19, 2024 00:00
"Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?"
Anonymous
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Published: October 19, 2024 00:00
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
David Letterman
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Published: October 18, 2024 00:00
"I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious."
Horace Walpole
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Published: October 18, 2024 00:00
"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
G. K. Chesterton
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Published: October 18, 2024 00:00
"I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."
E. B. White
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Published: October 18, 2024 00:00
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time."
Quentin Crisp
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Published: October 17, 2024 00:00
"Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Published: October 17, 2024 00:00
"You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it."
Thomas Fuller
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Published: October 17, 2024 00:00
"Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away."
Arthur Miller
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Published: October 17, 2024 00:00
"Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money."
W. H. Auden
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Published: October 16, 2024 00:00
"No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
Orson Welles
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Published: October 16, 2024 00:00
"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch."
Woody Allen
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Published: October 16, 2024 00:00
"What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?"
Chico Marx
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Published: October 16, 2024 00:00
"Mustard's no good without roast beef."
Kurt Vonnegut
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Published: October 15, 2024 00:00
"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae."
Edgar Bergen
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Published: October 15, 2024 00:00
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy."
Kelvin Throop III
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Published: October 15, 2024 00:00
"Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
Benjamin Franklin
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Published: October 15, 2024 00:00
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Published: October 14, 2024 00:00
"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
Thomas Sowell
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Published: October 14, 2024 00:00
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good."
Rudyard Kipling
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Published: October 14, 2024 00:00
"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves."
Dave Kellett
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Published: October 14, 2024 00:00
"School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come."