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

Rudyard Kipling, in Men and Women

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Sam Brown, (Washington Post, 1977), in Wisdom and Ignorance

The great question -- which I have not been able to answer -- is, "What does a woman want?"

Sigmund Freud, in Men and Women

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Doug Horton, in Altruism and Cynicism

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.

John Paul Jones, in War and Peace

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

John Keats, in Success and Failure

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Frank Capra, in Wisdom and Ignorance

A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.

Dyer, in Work and Recreation

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in War and Peace

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

Jimmy Buffett, in Life and Death

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert Humphrey, in Success and Failure

Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Buddha, (last words), in Life and Death

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush, in War and Peace

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Edmond Jules Goncourt, in Art and Literature

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Altruism and Cynicism

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance