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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
-- W. H. Auden
Private faces in public places /
Are wiser and nicer /
Than public faces in private places.
-- W.H. Auden
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation."
-- H. H. Munro (Saki)
A thief believes everybody steals.
-- E.W. Howe
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
-- A. H. Weiler
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".
-- H. Allen Smith
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
-- H. Allen Smith ("Let the Crabgrass Grow")
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
-- D. H. Lawrence
"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
-- St. Augustine
Always behave like a duck: keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
-- Jacob Braude
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
-- H. G. Wells
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
-- Charles Baudelaire
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- H. D. Thoreau
Being called a poetess brings out the terroristress in me.
-- Audre Lorde