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"Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia."
- Judith Viorst
"Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary."
- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good
"Anything too stupid to be said, is sung."
- Voltaire




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"What do you mean we don't communicate? Just yesterday I faxed you a reply to the recorded message you left on my answering machine."
- The Wall Street Journal
"Does not enable user to fly"
- Warning on Batman cape
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes
"If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get."
- John Watson, University of Canterbury
"If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?"
- Jenny Weber
"Go away...I'm alright."
- H. G. Wells, dying words
"When women go wrong, men go right after them."
- Mae West
"A man in the house is worth two in the street."
- Mae West
"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens."
- E. B. White
"Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult."
- Charlotte Whitton
"Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority."
- Doctor Who
"Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do."
- Oscar Wilde
"Work is the curse of the drinking class."
- Oscar Wilde
"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."
- Oscar Wilde
"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays."
- Oscar Wilde
"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."
- Oscar Wilde
"I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability."
- Oscar Wilde
"Biography lends to death a new terror."
- Oscar Wilde
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
- Oscar Wilde
"You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough."
- Pearl Williams?
"I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street."
- Virginia Woolf
"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
- Virginia Woolf
"Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded."
- Virginia Woolf
"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today."
- Hemon Wouk
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
- Steven Wright
"When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic."
- Steven Wright
"What's another word for "Thesaurus?""
- Steven Wright
"There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot."
- Steven Wright




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