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Unknown Author (top)
Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.
- Unknown Author
Coolidge was known for his terse speech and reticence. A woman bet her friend that she could get Coolidge to speak to her, which was something he was reluctant to do. She went up to him and said: "Hello, Mr. President, I bet my friend that I could get you to say three words to me." "You lose," Coolidge replied dryly, and walked away.
- Unknown Author


Charles Baudelaire (top)
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
- Charles Baudelaire


William Congreve (top)
O, she is the antidote to desire.
- William Congreve


David Gerrold (top)
The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.
- David Gerrold


Abe Lemons (top)
I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town.
- Abe Lemons


Oscar Levant (top)
She has the answer to everything and the solution to nothing.
- Oscar Levant


Rose Macaulay (top)
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
- Rose Macaulay


Groucho Marx (top)
I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it.
- Groucho Marx


Henry Wheeler Shaw (top)
A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw


Jonathan Swift (top)
She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
- Jonathan Swift


Mark Twain (top)
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
- Mark Twain
Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brain. So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat - at least, not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send is about your fair usual average, I should judge that a couple of whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but simply good middling-sized whales.
- Mark Twain


Oscar Wilde (top)
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde


P.G. Wodehouse (top)
She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."
- P.G. Wodehouse