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like colour TV
is all there
in black and white”
Monty Python

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 A proverb is the wit of one, and the wisdom of many. 
John Russell (1792-1878)
 Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. 
George Santayana (1863-1952)
 An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half. 
Der Aphorismus deckt sich nie mit der Wahrheit; er ist entweder eine halbe Wahrheit oder anderthalb.
Karl Kraus (1874-1936)
 Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. 
Robert Benchley (1889-1945)
 I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if i can remember any of the damn things. 
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
 I really didn't say everything I said. 
Yogi Berra (1925-2015)
 It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. 
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
 It's better to be quotable than to be honest. 
Tom Stoppard (1937- )
 Many things which go under my name are badly translated from the German or are invented by other people. 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
 Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. 
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
 Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time writing essays. 
Einer, der Aphorismen schreiben kann, sollte sich nicht in Aufsätzen zersplittern.
Karl Kraus (1874-1936)
 The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other very well. 
Elias Canetti (1905-1994)
 The purpose of aphorisms is to keep fools who have memorised them from having nothing to say. 
Isaac Asimov (1920-1997)
 The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. 
Robert Benchley (1889-1945)
 Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants. 
William Congreve (1670-1729)
 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple: take it and copy it. 
Quand une chose a été dite et bien dite, n'ayez aucun scrupule, prenez-la, copiez.
Anatole France (1844-1924)
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