All Quotes
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.Evelyn Waugh
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.H.H. Munro (Saki)
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.Anatole France
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.Henry Fielding
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.James Beard
Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.Bertrand Russell
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.Abraham Lincoln
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.Wilson Mizner