“See what will happen if you don’t stop biting your fingernails?” — Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo
Quotations
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“We are rarely proud when we are alone.” — Voltaire
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“Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh.” — W.H. Auden
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“Hell is full of musical amateurs.” — George Bernard Shaw
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“There is no worse robber than a bad book.” — Italian saying
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“Madam, there’s no such thing as a tough child — if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.” — W.C. Fields
Train Wreck
“If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.” — John Kenneth Galbraith
A Literary Knight’s Tour
The knight’s tour is a recreation familiar to chessplayers: Move a knight about an empty chessboard so as to visit each square exactly once.
On this board, each square contains a syllable. Collect them in the right order and you’ll compose a six-line quotation from Shakespeare. What is it?
(Hint: Start on e4, “to”.)
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“God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.” — H.L. Mencken
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“Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.” — Paul Erdös