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Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.

-- Satchel Paige

The purpose of time is to keep everything from happening all at once. It's not working.

-- Jim Paradis

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.

-- Bill Parcels, New England Patriots head coach, on 2nd year quarter-back Drew Bledsoe

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

-- Dorothy Parker

How could they tell?

-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died

I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

-- Dorothy Parker

If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.

-- Dorothy Parker

This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.

-- Dorothy Parker

You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.

-- Dorothy Parker

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.

-- Dolly Parton

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

-- Samuel Paterson

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

-- George S. Patton, Jr.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

-- General George Patton

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

-- Cesare Pavese

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

-- William Penn

Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

-- Boies Penrose, 1931

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

-- Bob Perelman

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

-- Laurence J. Peter

All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.

-- Lawrence J. Peter

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

-- Petrarch

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

-- Emo Philips

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

-- William Phillips

Drink to me.

-- Pablo Picasso, dying words

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

-- Pablo Picasso

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

-- Pablo Picasso

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.

-- Brian Pickrell

Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.

-- Charles Pierce

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

-- Robert M. Pirsig

Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

-- Plutarch

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

-- Edgar Allan Poe

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

-- Channing Pollack

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.

-- John G. Pollard

He who laughs, lasts.

-- Mary Pettibone Poole

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

-- Paula Poundstone

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

-- Colin Powell

Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.

-- John Powell

I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying.

-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an interview after he was returned to the U.S.

Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.

-- Walter Prager

Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.

-- Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and I don't care.

-- Richard Pratt, Pacific Computer Weekly, 20 July 1990

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

-- Elvis Presley

If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes.

-- Prince