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The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
-- Woody Allen (Without Feathers, 1976)

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen ("Without Feathers")

A man without God is like a fish without a skateboard.

You can't spell evil without vi.

"Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious."
-- William Feather

Computer Science without FORTRAN and COBOL is like birthday cake without ketchup and mustard.

The only rose without thorns is friendship.

A day without a pun is a day without sunshine; there is gloom for improvement.

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

"Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."

You can't make a program without breaking some egos.

"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent."

What is dignity without honesty?
-- Cicero

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."

Without followers, evil cannot spread.
-- Spock (Star Trek, "And The Children Shall Lead")

"Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?"

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

Erotic is when you use a feather. Kinky is when you use the whole chicken.

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein

Quality without creativity is pompous;
Creativity without quality is infantile.

-- John Cerruti

I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose.
-- Spock (Star Trek, "The Squire of Gothos")

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.
-- Miguel de Unamuno (Spanish philosopher and writer)

You can be a professional without being constipated about it.
-- David Keyser

Friendship is Love without its wings. (l'Amiti� est l'amour sans ailes.)
-- Lord Byron

The job of the poet is to render the world -- to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
-- Mark Van Doren

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw

"I don't know what caffeine does for you, but I'm pretty sure without it your head caves in"
-- Dave (News Radio)

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Lecture, n: Where the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either one.

"Emacs is for people who desperately want to get drunk, but feel guilty doing so without a reason."
-- Miles O'Neal

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-- Aristotle

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help."
-- Judith Martin (Miss Manners)

Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
-- Woody Allen

Children aren't happy without something to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.

-- Ogden Nash

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
-- Confucius

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer `yes' without having asked any clear question.
-- Albert Camus

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
-- Mao Zedong ("Quotations from Chairman Mao," 1966)

"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."
-- George Bernard Shaw

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without an education. Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
-- A. E. Wiggan

The loom works perfectly well without the steam powered wig darner and shortbread cutter stapled to the side.
-- Peter da Silva

"*snort* I'm waiting for the day when people realise that mainstream is a subset of SF without the speculation..."
-- Emmet O'Brien

Everybody is clever nowadays. You cannot go anywhere without meeting clever people. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.
-- Oscar Wilde

You like ice cream. You like ice cream. You love it. You cannot resist ice cream. To resist is hopeless. Your existence is meaningless without ice cream.
-- Ice cream van (Invader Zim)

"I have to find a way of saying the truth without saying it; that is exactly what is literature, after all: clever lies which only secretly say the truth."
-- Simone de Beauvoir

Grammar is not a vice (though excessive picking at it can be). And nonstandard words/grammar can be used to good effect--but no one can do that without knowing how they're deviating.
-- Randy Clark

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
-- Georges Clemenceau (1 December 1945)

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.
-- Frederick Douglass

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.
-- Terry Pratchett (alt.fan.pratchett)

I speak without reservation from what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding that all people should have the right to offer their voice to the chorus whether the result is harmony or dissonance, the worldsong is a colorless dirge without the differences that distinguish us, and it is that difference which should be celebrated, not condemned.
-- Ani Difranco