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• Quote #184 "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of the pox !
  "That, my Lord, depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress" -- -- John Wilkes to The Earl of Sandwich, Parliament, November 1763 Now that's so much of a classic I am near-ashamed to include it in here....
• GALLOWS, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading actor is translated to heaven.
  In this country the gallows is chiefly remarkable for the number of persons who escape it....
• Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease".
  Disraeli replied, "That all depends upon whether I embrace your principals or your mistress"....
• Marge: I need to unwind. Homer: I knw you do, Marge, but come on, you know what our vacations are like.
  Those three monsters in the back seat. "Are we there yet?...
• How do you know you are not immortal untill you die.
• I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
  -- Chang-tzu...
• I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
  -- Chuang-tzu...