All Quotes
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We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.William Arthur Ward
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.Mark Twain
The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.e. e. cummings, on the death of Warren G. Harding, 1923
Harding was not a bad man, he was just a slob.Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from Mrs. L. Conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.Ralph Nader, The Pacific Sun, March 21, 1981
A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.Laurence J. Peter
Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.Laurence J. Peter
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.Cyril Connolly
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.Plato
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.Will Durant