"I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."

-- Samuel Johnson

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“Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion.”
“We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men.”
“The European policy is invariably the maintenance of the status quo, and you will do nothing for the subject races unless we, by taking initiative, make you realize that helping us against the Turks is the lesser of the evils.”

Source : "Eminent Europeans; studies in continental reality" by E. S. Bagger, G.P. Putnam's Sons, (p. 67), 1922.
“The term 'genius' is inapplicable to anyone in this game. A genius is Norman Einstein.”
“Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.”
“Style is engineering that gives you freedom.”
“Too much of whatever is dangerous.”
“When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.”

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