Miscellaneous Collections

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Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing.
-- Herodotu...
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. -- Samuel Johnso
Of all of the delights in this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
-- Mark Twai...
Of all possible committee reactions to any given agenda item, the reaction that will occur is the one which will liberate the greatest amount of hot air.
-- Thomas L. Marti...
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is surely the strangest. -- Andre Gide
Of all tales 't is the saddest,--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xiii, Stanza 9...
Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this that he knew nothing yet.
-- MRS. APHRA BEHN...
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. -- Plato (428-348? B.C.)
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
-- Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) -- Tristram Sha...

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