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tiny.ag/gvohc8br · submitted 1997

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll, in Altruism and Cynicism

tiny.ag/bmdpgrs0 · submitted 1997

Let's have some new clichÃ©s.

Samuel Goldwyn, in Art and Literature

tiny.ag/ls2p5dcg · submitted 1997

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Jenny Holzer, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/slwohzjt · submitted 1997

It's kinda fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/aoh5h6tb · submitted 1999

Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

P. J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World, in Altruism and Cynicism and Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/nzeorxiy · submitted 1997

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Altruism and Cynicism

tiny.ag/iobj0muk · submitted 1997

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Lillian Hellman, in Altruism and Cynicism

tiny.ag/pizd3ywt · submitted 1997

I hate quotations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/6thfwduq · submitted 1999

Romance is built on illusion, and when we love someone, we love the illusion they have created for us.

Roger Ebert, (from review of Boys Don't Cry, Oct. 22, 1999), in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/0spygbpd · submitted 1997

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It buys you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

Henrik Ibsen, in Wealth and Poverty

tiny.ag/ctd7inn0 · submitted 1997

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.

Louis Armstrong, in Vice and Virtue

tiny.ag/hudckmys · submitted 1997

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.

Benjamin Franklin, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/rxe07t5e · submitted 1997

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

Benny Hill, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/x2tnoops · submitted 1997

The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, in Vice and Virtue

tiny.ag/fpwszor9 · submitted 1997

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Horace, in Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/czhkruer · submitted 1997

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.