Quote of the Day

“I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.”
– Franklin P. Adams

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“My father was frightened of his father, I was frightened of my father, and I’m damn well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.”
– King George V

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Quote of the Day

“Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted a whole day.”
– Mickey Rooney

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“San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don’t mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that’s what it is to me. One time in Kezar stadium they gave me a standing boo.”
– George HalaS

George Halas was a pro basketball pioneer as well

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“It is a gentleman’s first duty to remember in the morning who it was he took to bed with him.”
– Dorothy L. Sayers

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“There are hot dog fillings which have more in common with meat than mere pinkness, whose lucky consumers don’t apply mustard because that would spoil the taste. It’s just that people can be trained to prefer the other sort, and seek it out. It’s as if Machiavelli had written a cookery book. Even so, there is no excuse for putting pineapple on pizza.”
Terry Pratchett

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“Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that’ll get you home earlier.”
– Dan Bennett

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“When I meet a man I ask myself, ‘Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?’ ”
– Rita Rudner

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