It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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-- Wayne Gretzky Arts and Entertainment It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
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- Sir Winston Churchill Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
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-- Joseph Joubert Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Arts and Entertainment
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Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
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The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
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- Albert Einstein Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
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"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke Arts and Entertainment The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw I still live.
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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
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-- Maya Angelou Arts and Entertainment
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
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-- Dorothy Parker You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Arts and Entertainment True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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