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"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"The difference between sex and death is, death you can do alone and nobody laughs at you."
Woody Allen (1935-)

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"If I had a mine shaft, I don't think I would just abandon it.
There's got to be a better way."
Jack Handey (1949-)

"There are several good protections against temptation but the surest is cowardice."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"There are some remedies worse than the disease."
Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.)

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."
Woody Allen (1935-)

"Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening."
Marlon Brando (1924-)

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Poor Richard's Almanack

"Sex is the great amateur art. The professional, male or female, is frowned on; he or she misses the whole point and spoils the show."
David Cort (1904-)

"I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer."
Woody Allen (1935-)

"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 (469-399 B.C.)

"The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife -- a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held."
Woody Allen (1935-)

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Poor Richard's Almanack

"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."
Ogden Nash (1902-1971)

"Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survives."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)

"An empty stomach is not a good political advisor."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition."
Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-1747)

"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)

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