There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs. ~Author Unknown
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne, quoted in 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, 1988
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. ~Arnold Toynbee
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope... and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ~Robert F. Kennedy
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ~Peter Drucker
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. ~Rachel Carson
I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. ~Gilda Radner
People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. ~Edith Wharton People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia, 1917
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. ~Andrew J. Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses
A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
Let's have some new cliches. ~Samuel Goldwyn
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. ~W.B. Yeats
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ~Luis Bu�uel
There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel. ~Astrid Alauda, on the "hot mom" trend
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet. ~Ann Landers
It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants. ~Author Unknown
I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent. ~Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers, 1977
The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn't excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws. The problem is that it was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists. ~Thomas Nolle
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor
Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse. ~Jimmy Fallon
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