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I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.
Dolly PartonRead
If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
Larry DavidRead
I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.
Satchel PaigeRead
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward BeecherRead
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Henry Ward BeecherRead
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
Rodney DangerfieldRead
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it
Richard P. FeynmanRead
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George OrwellRead
It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.
Hilaire BellocRead
I walk into the clubhouse today and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic. We have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol, and by the 7th inning he'd already drunk it.
Tommy LasordaRead
Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
Mark TwainRead
Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill NyeRead
I believe that all women are pretty without makeup- but with the right makeup can be pretty powerful.
Bobbi BrownRead
If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
George Bernard ShawRead
It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?
John LennonRead
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
Henry David ThoreauRead
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
I've always been a big fan of beauty. Sure, you can't judge a book by its cover but who wants to have sex with a book?
Stephen ColbertRead
Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.
ConfuciusRead

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