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-- Helen Keller Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
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Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Such is life.
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
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In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
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"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Burton Leonard Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
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"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Never eat more than you can lift.
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By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Burton Leonard
