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Adam is the symbol of any one body of consciousness.

Preston Harold


Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Marshall McLuhan


Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

George Orwell


Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

Arthur Baer


Babies are such a nice way to start people.

Don Herold


Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

Louis Fischer


California is a great place to live if you're an orange.

Fred Allen


Capital punishment is either an affront to humanity or a potential parking place.

Larry Brown


Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Garrison Keillor


Cats are living adornments.

Edwin Lent


Chance is a pseudonym of God when he doesn't want to sign.

Anatole France


Character is that which can do without success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

G.K. Chesterton


Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Oscar Wilde


Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

H.L. Mencken


Death is just a distant rumor to the young.

Andy Rooney


Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.

Bill Musselman


Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

Will Rogers


Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

Cary Grant


Drama is what you do when you have a dream while you're awake.

Ron Smothermon


Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats


Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost


England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humors.

George Santayana


Eternity is just time on an ego trip.

Lily Tomlin


Flirtation is attention without intention.

Max O'Neil


Fox hunting is the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.

Oscar Wilde


Freedom means choosing your burden.

Hephzibah Menuhin


Generosity is the vanity of giving.

La Rochefoucauld


Glamour is when a man knows a woman is a woman.

Gina Lollabrigida


Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman


Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

Walter Raleigh


Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
Luther Burbank


Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Walter Winchell


Humor is just another defence against the universe.

Mel Brooks


Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

George Chapman


Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joseph Joubert


Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Fred Allen


Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

Jack Paar


Integrity means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

Erich Fromm


Intelligence is the quickness in seeing things as they are.

George Santayana


Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.

Rene Yasenek


Language is a form of organized stutter.

Marshall McLuhan


Language is a virus from outer space.

William Burroughs


Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

Marcus Aurelius


Love is the fundamental relatedness in the universe.

Ron Smothermon


Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

Colin Wilson


Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Joseph Barth


Marriage is part of a sort of 50's revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.

Calvin Trillin


Money is human happiness in the abstract.

Arthur Schopenhauer


Money is the poor people's credit card.

Marshall McLuhan


Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

H.H. Munro


Neurosis is a way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

Paul Tillich


Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

T.S. Eliot


Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinger


Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

George Eliot


Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself a therapy.

Karl Kraus


Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

Marshall McLuhan


Religion is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx


Ronald Reagan is a triumph of the embalmer's art.

Gore Vidal


Sex is dirty only when it's done right.

Woody Allen


Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

George Bernard Shaw


Sleep is an 8 hour peep show of infantile erotica.

J.G. Ballard


Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Fletcher Knebel


Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

Andre Maurois


Taste is the feminine of genius.

Edward Fitzgerald


Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Frank Lloyd Wright


Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Paddy Chayevsky


Time was invented by God to give ideas a chance.

Nicholas Murray Butler


Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser


Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

Truman Capote


War is the trade of kings.

John Dryden


Woman is at once apple and serpent.

Heinrich Heine


Wonder is a basis of worship.

Thomas Carlyle


Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Oscar Wilde


A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

Cab Calloway


Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Christopher Morley


God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh.

Voltaire


Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Napoleon Bonaparte


The absurd man is he who never changes

Auguste Barthelemy


To love is to admire with the heart; To admire is to love with the mind.

Theophile Gautier


Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire


Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Jean de La Bruyere


A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

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