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- Arthur Schopenhauer I married beneath me. All women do.
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-- Arthur C. Clarke Recreation and Sports
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
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-- Dave Barry If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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-- Honore de Balzac This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Recreation and Sports
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
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-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
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He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
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Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
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people all Recreation and Sports The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Recreation and Sports
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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-- Oscar Wilde We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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-- French Proverb Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
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-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Recreation and Sports
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
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