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-- Anne Sullivan Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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-- Anonymous A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
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-- Shirley Temple Black Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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-- Henry Ford A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
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-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Arts and Entertainment In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
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-- Samuel Johnson Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
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-- Rodney Dangerfield Arts and Entertainment I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
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What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
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-- Woody Allen "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
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-- Shirley Temple Black Arts and Entertainment Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
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-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
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-- Steve Bluestone Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Arts and Entertainment
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The first duty of love is to listen.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
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-- Polish proverb Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Arts and Entertainment
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
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-- Horace Walpole The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
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