I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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-- Anonymous Black holes are where God divided by zero.
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-- Anonymous What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
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-- Tom Clancy Assassins!
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For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
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-- Robert Briffault "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
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-- Fred Allen There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
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-- Neils Bohr We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
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"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Republic of North Ossetia - Alania The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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-- H There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
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-- Dave Barry I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
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family does too.
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"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
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He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
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"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
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If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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- George Bernard Shaw Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
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