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William Safire

"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

Raphael Santi

"Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets."

Richard Sasuly

"No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse."

Friedrich von Schiller

"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."

Erich Segal

"Love means never having to say you're sorry"

G. B. Shaw

"The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those who have not got it."

R.E. Shay

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

Logan Pearsall Smith

"Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own."

Jon Snow, Interviewer

"You're a gynaecologist; what are you feeling today?"

Britney Spears, Singer

"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."

Josef Stalin

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"The best protection any woman can have ... is courage."

Gloria Steinem

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

August Strindberg

"People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves"

Jonathan Swift

"No wise man ever wished to be younger."

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