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- Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.
- Hannah Moore
- What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- A woman's place is in the wrong.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.
- Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950)
- Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall
- Oliver Herford
- You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.
- President Nixon, on the best wife for a president
- There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.
- Ross Perot, The Dallas Morning News, March 11, 1984
- I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.
- Paul Tsongas, campaigning in New Hampshire
- I don't want to be charged with child abuse.
- Pat Buchanan, saying he did not want to get into a war of words with Vice President Dan Quayle
- I'm out of ammunition on this.
- James Stockdale, during 1992 Vice Presidential debate, concluding his answer to a question about health policy
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