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-- Socrates Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
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-- Robert G. Ingersoll If we don't change the direction we are going,
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-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
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My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
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- Aristotle Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Golf I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
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-- Stanislaw J. Lec Golf
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
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