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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Edgar Bergen, (Charlie McCarthy)
US comedian & ventriloquist (1903 - 1978)


A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Jim Bishop


A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.

Yiddish Proverb


As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.

Leonardo Da Vinci
Italian engineer, painter, & sculptor (1452 - 1519)


All phone calls are obscene.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon


Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Philip Johnson
US architect (1906 - 2005)


Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Erma Bombeck
US author & humorist (1927 - 1996)


All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)


An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885 - 1962)


An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Charles de Montesquieu
French lawyer & philosopher (1689 - 1755)


Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Douglas Adams
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)


All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.

David Brower


An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Simon Cameron
US financier & politician (1799 - 1889)


A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

Katharine Whitehorn


A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan
US singer & songwriter (1941 - )


Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

Malcom Forbes


An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)


A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Mahatma Gandhi
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)


Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

Samuel Goldwyn
US (Polish-born) movie producer (1882 - 1974)


As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.

Hagar the Horrible




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Gift Ideas