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Famous People: Clever Turns of Phrase
There are few things I admire more than people who can simultaneously get their meaning across clearly and give you a smile at the way they did it.
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
-- Noel Coward
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
-- John Adams
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
-- Douglas Adams (in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
-- P.G. Wodehouse
Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing glove.
-- P.G. Wodehouse (in Very Good, Jeeves)
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.