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Anon.
A neurotic is a man who builds castles in the air; a psychotic is one who tries to live in them, and the psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

Andrew Lang 1844-1912
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts -- for support rather than illumination.

Georges Pompidou 1911-1974
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling, and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

Anon.
The optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears that we do.

Alfred Zauberman
The worse the economy, the better the economist.
(Zauberman's law)

George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
The fact that doctors themselves die of the same diseases they profess to cure passes unnoticed.

W. H. Thompson 1810-1886
We are none of us infallible; not even the youngest of us.

Oscar Wilde 1854-1900
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
Education is a good thing generally, but most folks educate their prejudices.

Lev Davidovich Trotskii 1879-1940
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man.

Old Russian Proverb
If God listened to every shepherd's curse, our sheep would all be dead.


Christoph Martin Wieland 1733-1813  
Too much light often blinds gentlemen of this sort. They cannot see the forest for the trees.

Anon.
When all else fails, read the instructions.
 
 

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