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- Optimism, n. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.
- Quentin Crisp
- I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
- Brigid Brophy
- In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
- Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)
- Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)
- For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
- St. Jerome
- There's a great woman behind every idiot.
- John Lennon (1940 - 1980)
- Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.
- H. Allen Smith
- A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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