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A person who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

-- Paul Valery

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

-- Paul Valery

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

-- Paul Valery

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.

-- Abigail Van Buren

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

-- Henry Van Dyke

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

-- Vincent Van Gogh

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.

-- Vincent Van Gogh

That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.

-- Gloria Vanderbilt

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

-- Bill Vaughn

A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.

-- Gore Vidal

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

-- Gore Vidal

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

-- Gore Vidal

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

-- Pancho Villa, dying words

Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford--but you'll take him anyway.

-- Judith Viorst

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

-- Judith Viorst

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

-- Judith Viorst

Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.

-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good

Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.

-- Voltaire

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

-- Voltaire

If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.

-- Voltaire

The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

-- Voltaire

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

-- Voltaire

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

-- Wernher Von Braun

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

-- John Von Neuman

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

-- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.

-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words