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Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye,
particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
                -- Clifton Fadiman, "Enter Conversing"

Fame may be fleeting but obscurity is forever.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it
every six months.
                -- Oscar Wilde

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
                -- Victor Hugo

Fess:   Well, you must admit there is something innately humorous about
        a man chasing an invention of his own halfway across the galaxy.
Rod:    Oh yeah, it's a million yuks, sure.  But after all, isn't that the
        basic difference between robots and humans?
Fess:   What, the ability to form imaginary constructs?
Rod:    No, the ability to get hung up on them.
                -- Christopher Stasheff, "The Warlock in Spite of Himself"

Flattery is like cologne -- to be smelled, but not swallowed.
                -- Josh Billings

For an idea to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be
always old-fashioned.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
                -- Harrison

For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill.
                -- R. Clopton