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Your chance of winning the lottery is the same whether you play it or not. - Fran Leibowitz
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. - Will Rogers
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. - George Bernard Shaw
The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. - Hungarian proverb
I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring. - Noel Coward
The best thing about quitting smoking is starting again. - Mark Twain
I never vote for anyone. I always vote against. - W.C. Fields
Only the winners decide what were war crimes. - Gary Wills
On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women. - H.L. Mencken
Women should be obscene and not heard. - Groucho Marx
I do not like work even when someone else does it. - Mark Twain
Maybe this world is another planet's hell. - Aldous Huxley
For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex. - Gore Vidal
Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be. - Holbrook Jackson
Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. - H.L. Mencken
Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H.L. Mencken
Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you. - Mae West
Anybody who hates dogs and loves whiskey can't be all bad. - W.C. Fields
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. - H.L. Menckenaa
There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject. - George Bernard Shaw
God seems to have an inordinate fondness for beetles. - J.B.S. Haldane
If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job. - Woody Allen
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. - A.J. Liebling
Many a man has chosen a woman in light so dim he wouldn't have chosen a suit by it. - Maurice Chevalier
Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. - G.K. Chesterton
Every revolution evaporates and leaves only the slime of a new bureaucracy. - Franz Kafka
Show me a man who has enjoyed his school days and I'll show you a bully and a bore. - Robert Morley
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. - Stephen Leacock
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. - Dylan Thomas
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. - Anatole France