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  • Champaign for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends. - Tom Waits
  • The way I see it, unless we each conform, unless we obey orders, unless we follow our leaders blindly, there is no possible way we can remain free. - MASH TV show
  • There's nothing an agnostic can't do if he really doesn't know whether he believes in anything or not. - Monty Python
  • Not here for a long time - here for a good time. - Steve Guttenberg
  • I used to read, but it's faster to make up stuff. - Scott Adams (Dilbert comic strip)
  • An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. - Will Rogers
  • We understand. We just don't fuckin' get it. -Jon Stewart
  • Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. — Steven Wright
  • A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. - James Thurber
  • Do not put off till tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well. — Mark Twain
  • Procrastinator's Creed: I believe if it's worth doing, it would have been done already. - Anon.
  • If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. - George Carlin
  • If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. — Steven Wright
  • His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. - Mae West
  • A man in the house is worth two in the street. - Mae West
  • If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it. - Dilbert
  • Sir, Sunday morning, although recurring at regular and well foreseen intervals, always seems to take this railway by surprise. - W.S. Gilbert
  • The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Football combines the two worst features of American life: violence and committee meetings. - George Will
  • I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. - Mae West
  • America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. - Bobcat Goldthwait
  • A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead. - Anon.
  • The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. - Anon.
  • Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same. - Oscar Wilde
  • The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. - Ann Landers
  • Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate. — Woody Allen
  • Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure. - Portuguese proverb
  • I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor. - Francois Rabelais
  • Most of the time, I don't have much fun. The rest of the time, I don't have any fun at all. - Woody Allen
  • Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. - George Jean Nathan
  • Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves you midsection unprotected. - Robert Orben
  • I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. - Lily Tomlin
  • For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells
  • There are more fools in the world than there are people. - Heinrich Heine
  • The covers of this book are too far apart - Ambrose Bierce
  • Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. - R. Heinlein
  • By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates
  • Set your sights low and you'll always succeed. - "Mother Goose and Grimm"
  • I'd never want to belong to any club that would have me as a member. - Woody Allen
  • Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. - Arthur Miller
  • Every time I think I've hit bottom, someone throws me a shovel. - Jim Davis (Garfield Cartoon)
  • The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. - Brendan Behan
  • Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. - Doug Larson
  • Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. - Alexander Pope
  • We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can. - Cullen Hightower
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