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- New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly… — Mark Twain
- He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a… — Sam Manekshaw
- I have found life highly competitive. I accept it. It is useless, merely a hypocritical humbug, to sincerely wish your opponent to… — Percy Cerutty
- Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the… — Eugene V. Debs
- I'm a songwriter first...In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I… — Carole King
- There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have… — Eugene Ionesco
- Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. — Mark Twain
- The voice of the people is the voice of humbug. — William Tecumseh Sherman
- The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial!… — Whitley Strieber
- I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling… — Winston Churchill
- There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you… — Edouard Manet
- Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug. — Max Frisch