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- What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
- Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- There are very few people who don't become more interesting when they stop talking.
- Mary Lowry in the Pacific Sun, November 15, 1985
- Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.
- Ralph Nader (1934 - ), The Pacific Sun, March 21, 1981
- Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz
- Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
- Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "Maine Woods," `Chesuncook'
- A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Thank heavens the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
- How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!
- Sterne
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