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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. ~J.B. Priestley
It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher. ~Charles Peirce
Soup is liquid comfort. ~Author Unknown
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. ~Rose Macaulay
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. ~Evelyn Waugh
If it draws blood, it's hardware. ~Author Unknown
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers. ~Mary Tyler Moore
Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing. ~Willis Thornton, Fable, Fact and History
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. ~Edgar Allan Poe
No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him. ~Bud Flanagan
Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. ~Saint Augustine
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. ~Elizabeth Bowen
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet. ~Oliver Herford
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. ~Bill Vaughan
When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease. ~Terri Guillemets
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. ~William Ralph Inge
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. ~Jawaharlal Nehru
I wanted to burn the Louvre. I'd do the Elgin Marbles with a sledgehammer and wipe my ass with the Mona Lisa. This is my world, now. This is my world, my world, and those ancient people are dead. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 16
