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  • Christopher Morley : One of the odd things about being in a hurry is that it seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A bachelor is one who wants a wife, but is glad he hasn't got her.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Helen Rowland A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Aldous Huxley A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Art Buchwald A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Hesiod A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Brendan Francis A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves.
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Robert Burton A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Carl Sagan A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Bret Michaels A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.
    Bret Michaels
    American singer-songwriter, musician and actor (1963 - )
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  • Henry Ford A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Carolyn Wells A canner exceedingly canny
    One morning remarked to his granny:
    'A canny canner can can
    Anything that he can
    But a canner can't can a can, can he?'
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Jean Cocteau A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Henry Morgan A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light.
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  • Bill Dickey A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
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  • Barbara Holland A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
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  • Arnold Bennett A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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