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Las Vegas is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperor's orgy is now a democratic institution. "Topless Pizza Lunch." ~Alistair Cooke



Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~G.M. Trevelyan



Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~Attributed to Mark Twain, unconfirmed



When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings. ~Julia Ward Howe



It has been said that figures rule the world; maybe. I am quite sure that it is figures which show us whether it is being ruled well or badly. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830, translated



Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. ~Mark Twain



Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez



With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. ~Percival Arland Ussher



A waist is a terrible thing to mind. ~Tom Wilson



The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? ~Nicholas Rowe



You always pass failure on your way to success. ~Mickey Rooney



We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe



Health is merely the slowest way someone can die. ~Author Unknown



If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American. ~Author Unknown



I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure. ~E.B. White



Whenever ideas fail, men invent words. ~Martin H. Fischer



Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: from academe A modern school where football is taught. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake. ~Eli Siegel



If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National. ~George Will