The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.
-- From the 1985 movie "Bliss"
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
-- Will Rogers
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
-- Charles Peters
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
-- Raymond Chandler
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
-- Thomas Pickering
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
-- Arthur Koestler
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
-- Cyril Connolly
The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
-- Vic Gold
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
-- E. B. White
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
-- Albert Einstein
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
-- E. Joseph Cossman
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