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• People would do nothing if they waited until they could do it so well that no one could find fault with what they have done.
• Harry constantly irritated his friends with his eternal optimism.
  No matter how bad the situation, he would always say, "Well, it could have been worse....
• I wish I could have stayed one more year or two. There was so much I wanted to see and to do and to have done to me.
  -- Apu Nahassapeemapetilan, "Much Apu About Nothing...
• You could have a cheap car radio fitted while you waited, and if you turned your back for a couple of minutes, it would be removed while you waited as well.
  -- About King's Cross Statio...
• A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point.
  ..and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point....
• Marge: Oh, you have _nothing_ to worry about, honey.
  Homer: Your mother's right, Bart. Sure, you're the one who _ruined_ all of Sideshow Bob's criminal schemes....
• It was raining heavily, and the motorist had car trouble on a lonely country road.
  Anxious to find shelter for the night, he walked over to a farmhouse and knocked on the front door....
• ADVICE, n. The smallest current coin. "The man was in such deep distress," Said Tom, "that I could do no less Than give him good advice.
  Said Jim: "If less could have been done for him I know you well enough, my son, To know that's what you would have done....