Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Lord Melbourne If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Aldous Huxley If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • George Ade If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Calvin Trillin If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Carine Roitfeld If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Isaac Asimov If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
    Source: Asimov's Guide to Science (1972) p. 15
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Samuel Butler If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • André Maurois If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • John Updike If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Francis Bacon If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Barbara Kruger If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Gore Vidal If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Quentin Crisp If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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