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- I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
- Bette-Jane Raphael
- Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.
- Lady Violet Bonham Carter (1887 - 1969)
- Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- She's afraid that if she leaves, she'll become the live of the party.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
- Rita Rudner
- A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.
- J.B. Priestley
- Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
- Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
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