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Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism. ~John M. Shanahan, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)



One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb



What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window. ~Burton Rascoe



Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. ~Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein), Diary in Exile, 1935



The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them. ~Martin H. Fischer



I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them. ~Sherwood Anderson



Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal. ~Voltaire



Do vegetarians eat animal crackers? ~Author Unknown



Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse. ~Christopher Morley



Extract: a passage from a literary work.



You can't test courage cautiously. ~Anne Dillard



All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds. ~George Bernard Shaw



The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~William James



God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. ~Voltaire



If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance. ~Andrea Boydston



Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. ~Louis Kronenberger



God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. ~Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien



I'll take heat rash over frost bite any day. ~Ken Travous



Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ~Ezra Pound