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• (amateurs) "Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic."

• (angels) "Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell." -- Malcolm, in Macbeth by William Shakespeare (4.3.27)

• (appear) "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." -- Isaac Newton

• (asteroid) "What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad." -- Dave Barry

• (broken) "Even a broken clock is right twice a day."

• (chocolate) "Chocolate is a psychoactive food. It is made from the seeds of the tropical cacao tree, Theobroma cacao. The cacao tree was named by the 17th century Swedish naturalist, Linnaeus. The Greek term theobroma means literally food of the gods. Chocolate has also been called the food of the devil; but the theological basis of this claim is obscure." -- ???

• (chocolate) "It's not that chocolates are a substitute for love. Love is a substitute for chocolate. Chocolate is, let's face it, far more reliable than a man." -- Miranda Ingram

• (communication) "The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." -- Peter F. Drucker

• (creature) "The creature who answered the door was about three years old, redheaded, and quite possibly feral. It was probably female, although the knee-length jumper and giant fedora made its gender impossible to determine. It was clutching a box of chocolate cereal as if its life depended on it." -- A brilliant nameless author

• (depressed) "When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country." -- Elayne Boosler

• (explanation) "There's no simple explanation for anything important any of us do / the human tragedy consists in the necessity of living / with the consequences" -- 'Courage', by Gordon Downie of the Tragically Hip

• (half-life) "The half-life of not getting the point is forever." -- Stanley Kubrick

• (hear) "Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure." -- "I can't hear you, I have a banana in my ear."

• (husband) "An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." -- Agatha Christie

• (important) "Nothing important is happening today." -- King George III of England, July 4, 1776

• (infinite) "The only truly infinite things are the univers and human stupidity, and I am not entirely sure of the former." - Albert Einstein

• (know) "Quemadmodum possums scire utrum vere simus an solum sentiamus nos esse?" -- "How are we to know whether we actually exist or only think we exist?"

• (life) "What does man love more than life
  Fear more than death or mortal strife
  What the poor have, the rich require,
  and what contented men desire,
  What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves
  And all men carry to their graves?"

• (live) "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." -- James Dean

• (logical) "If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle." -- Rita Mae Brown

• (men) "If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?" -- Linda Ellerbee

• (men) "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then." -- Katharine Hepburn

• (mistrust) "Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes."

• (nagging) "Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths." -- Baroness Edith Summerskill

• (nonsense) "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." -- Dr. Seuss

• (opportunity) "Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers." -- Anonomous

• (phrase) "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!), but 'that's funny...' -- Isaac Asimov

• (sins) "There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing. -- Roger Caras

• (slave) "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." -- Abraham Lincoln

• (tomorrow) "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." -- Macbeth by William Shakespeare

• (vice) "Every other vice hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of some excuse, but envy wants both." -- Robert Burton, in The Anatomy of Melancholy

• (women) "I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted." -- Terry Pratchett