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• Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
  Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1784]...
• Vet: Your dog's condition has been upgraded from stable to frisky, [SLH walks out with his hind legs in a cast on rollers] and he's free to go.
  His legs should be as good as new in a few months, but in the meantime he'll have to use the wheelabout....
• Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done, I find being "inhuman" a compliment.
• It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
  -- Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life, 1770...
• When speculation has done its worst, two plus two still equals four. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
• Milhouse: Bart, look! It's Principal Skinner. And I think he's gone crazy -- he's not wearing a suit or tie or anything!
  Bart: [approaches him] Principal Skinner? Um, I'm real sorry about my dog getting you fired, and biting you, and then getting it on with your leg....
• Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited 'til he could do so well that no one could find fault with it.
• TV is like steak: a medium rarely well done.