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Larry Hardiman

The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.

Charles M. Schulz

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, “Where have I gone wrong?”/ Then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night.”

Douglas Noel Adams

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Noel Adams

Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason.

Pauline Frederick

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen.

Anon

Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece.

Anon

There are much easier things in life than finding a good man. Nailing Jell-O to a tree, for instance.

Anon

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

Anon

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

Anon

Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember

Germaine Greer

Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?

Homer Simpson

Son, when you participate in sporting events, it’s not whether you win or lose: it’s how drunk you get.

Robert Orben

There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all.

George Bernard Shaw

The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.