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Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. ~Robert Hutchison, address to the British Medical Association, 1930



Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere. ~W.S. Anglin



One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed. ~Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion



Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. ~Arnold H. Glasow



Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; it merely silences an argument. ~James Frederick Green



Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space. ~Dave Barry



The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. ~Frank Zappa



The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. ~Andre Maurois



Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself. ~Hubert de Givenchy, Vogue, July 1985



An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision. ~St Thomas Aquinas



Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain



So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. ~William Blackstone



I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss



Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen. ~James Russel Lowell



You live and learn. At any rate, you live. ~Douglas Adams



It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around. ~Mary Pickford



In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. ~J. Petit-Senn



The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage. ~Peggy Ryan



If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. ~Ram Dass