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Toronto has no social classes - only the Masseys and the masses.
~ B. K. Sandwell
Managers don't have to cook the books to manipulate earnings; they often have all the power they need in the leeway built into accounting rules.
~ Fred S. Worthy
Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.
~ Elizabeth Ann Seton
Cathedrals, Luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.
~ W. H. Auden
The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.
~ Sir Henry Wotton
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
~ Samuel Johnson
A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distin-quished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
~ Ambrose Bierce
He was one of those men whose constitutional inability to make small talk forfeits all one's sympathy, and makes one think that social grace is sometimes a moral duty.
~ James Morris
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
~ Laurence Sterne
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
~ Laurence Sterne
A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.
~ Louis Dudek
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde
Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
What men value in the world is not rights, but privileges.
~ H. L. Mencken
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
~ Bible
Whisky drowns some troubles and floats a lot more.
~ Robert C. Edwards
I would appeal to Philip, she said, but to Philip sober.
~ Valerius Maximus
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
~ Buckminster Fuller
Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway.
~ H. W. Shaw
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
~ Evelyn Underhill
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
~ Edward Dowden
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?
~ Mark Twain