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"A committee is a creature with three or more legs and no brain."	Robert Heinlein
"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me."	Frederick Douglass
"A humanitarian is always a hypocrite."	George Orwell
"A stiff apology is a second insult…. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry."	George Bernard Shaw
"By giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it [modern journalism] keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."	Oscar Wilde
"Coolidge was known for his terse speech and reticence. A woman bet her friend that she could get Coolidge to speak to her, which was something he was reluctant to do. She went up to him and said: "Hello, Mr. President, I bet my friend that I could get you to say three words to me." "You lose," Coolidge replied dryly, and walked away."	Author Unknown
"Do you suppose I could buy back my introduction to you?"	Groucho Marx
"Dustin Farnum: "I've never been better! In the last act yesterday, I had the audience glued to their seats." Oliver Herford: "How clever of you to think of it." O, she is the antidote to desire."	William Congreve
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."	Oscar Wilde
"Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you, he really is an idiot."	Groucho Marx
"Gerald Ford was unknown throughout America. Now he's unknown throughout the world."	Groucho Marx
"He doesn't get ulcers - he gives them."	Henny Youngman
"He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"He's a male chauvinistic piglet."	Groucho Marx
"I could dance with you until the cows come home... on second thoughts, I'll dance with the cows and you go home."	Groucho Marx
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."	Mark Twain
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that is all that agnosticism means."	Clarence Seward Darrow
"I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why."	Mark Twain
"I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable." (speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards)"	Lizzy Gardiner
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