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  1. Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
        Unknown   Best?
  2. It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  3. Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
        Bill Watterson   Best?
  4. Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
        Austin Farrar   Best?
  5. Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  6. Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.
        W. S. Gilbert   Best?
  7. The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
        Homer   Best?
  8. You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
        Demosthenes   Best?
  9. Nature made him, and then broke the mold.
        Ludovico Ariosto   Best?
  10. All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
        Charlie Chaplin   Best?
  11. We have some salt of our youth in us.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  12. A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  13. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  14. The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching.
        Anson Dorrance   Best?
  15. I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.
        Michel de Montaigne   Best?
  16. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
        Hebrews   Best?
  17. Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
        Gen. Peyton C. March   Best?
  18. Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
        Elmer G. Letterman   Best?
  19. The best holistic remedy for high blood pressure is a purring cat on your lap.
        Kathrine Palmer Peterson   Best?
  20. A man's library is a sort of harem.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  21. He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.
        Stephen Crane   Best?
  22. I think it's them...Men. They have no fortitude. They're always dying or skedaddling off at the first sign of trouble. So tell me this, who is left to pick up the pieces, ship the body. clean out the closets? Us! And they have the audacity to call us the weaker sex.
        Robin Green and Mitchell Burge   Best?
  23. You are the product of your own brainstorm.
        Rosemary Konner Steinbaum   Best?
  24. Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
        George Santayana   Best?
  25. I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.
        Marilyn Monroe   Best?
  26. Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  27. Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
        Frank Herbert   Best?
  28. Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  29. Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
        William Rotsler   Best?
  30. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
        Michael Crichton   Best?
  31. Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
        Clive Lewis   Best?
  32. There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
        George Meredith   Best?
  33. All right, class. I'm your substitute today. It's Friday and the last period, and I know you are all eager to get out of here, so I'll let you talk. All I ask, is that you do the right thing: Make me look good.
        Some teacher   Best?
  34. "Don't mess wit meh, or your gonna be sleepin wit da fishes... Trust me, that's fishes are not friendly bed companions."
        xxBrokenByLovexx   Best?
  35. Darling, I am not a white knight.
        Luke Spencer\Tony Geary   Best?
  36. There isn't a very fine line between a lie and leaving out a little bit. There's just the fact you can or cannot lie!
        Nadia Key   Best?

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