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-- George Bernard Shaw Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
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-- William Faulkner Travel Services I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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-- Mae West "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Travel Services
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-- Sigmund Freud The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
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-- Aldous Huxley No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Travel Services
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"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
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-- George de Benneville My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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-- Publilius Syrus Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Success is just a matter of attitude.
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-- Mae West "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Travel Services Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
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-- Russell Baker More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
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-- Isaac Asimov If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
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-- Robert L. Stevenson I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
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-- Samuel Johnson We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
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-- Tom Lehrer If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
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-- Virginia Woolf Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
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-- Phyllis Diller All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
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- Arthur Schopenhauer Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
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-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
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- Jimmy Durante In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
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-- David Deckert Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
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