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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

 Burt Bacharach, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Life is like a sewer -- what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

 Tom Lehrer, (from the album An Evening Wasted), in  Life and Death

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

 Jean Giraudoux, in  Success and Failure

Ignorance does not necesarilly mean one has a lack of wisdom, for a most ignorant person can be one with much wisdom. It's "live and learn" that creates wisdom.

 Austin Holmes, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

 Rudyard Kipling, in  Men and Women and  Vice and Virtue

An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.

 David Knight, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

An excuse is the mark of a moral coward.

 Joseph Cimino, in  Altruism and Cynicism

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

 John F. Kennedy, (comment when asked about his heroism), in  War and Peace

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

 Aristotle, in  Science and Religion

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

 Robert Burton, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

 Yogi Berra, in  Success and Failure

I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.

 Albert Einstein, in  Life and Death

To accomplish great things, you must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe.

 Anatole France, in  Success and Failure

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

 Jorge Luis Borges, "Three Versions of Judas", in  Vice and Virtue

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

 R. I. Fitzhenry, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

 Anatole France, in  Vice and Virtue

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.

 Rudyard Kipling, in  Men and Women

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.

 Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in  Science and Religion

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

The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.

 Tom Clancy, in  Art and Literature