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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ~Stephen Butler Leacock, quoted in Michael Jackman, Crown's Book of Political Quotations, 1982



An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault. ~William Castle



The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life. ~Robert MacIver



The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary. ~Martin H. Fischer



A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. ~Variation of a saying by Albert Einstein



Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis



No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a child. ~Knights of Pythagoras



I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. ~D. Dale Gulledge



Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty. ~William Ralph Inge



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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller



A father lives after death in his son. ~Sanskrit



The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies. ~Carl T. Rowan



All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says. ~Walter B. Wriston



Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people has the right to impose definitions of reality on others. ~Liz Stanley and Sue Wise



I used to love night best but the older I get the more treasures and hope and joy I find in mornings. ~Terri Guillemets



The triumph of machine over people. ~Fred Allen, about television



The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. ~Chuck Palahniuk



You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ~Vernon Howard



The cold is a good counselor, but it is cold. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin