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- Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery.
- George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
- If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.
- Alan King
- Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- A priest asked: What is Fate, Master?
And he answered: It is that which gives a beast of burden its reason for existence. It is that which men in former times had to bear upon their backs. It is that which has caused nations to build byways from City to City upon which carts and coaches pass, and alongside which inns have come to be built to stave off Hunger, Thirst and Weariness. And that is Fate? said the priest. Fate ... I thought you said Freight, responded the Master. That's all right, said the priest. I wanted to know what Freight was too. - Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
- There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
- Adela Rogers St. Johns
- Economists are people who work with numbers but who don't have the personality to be accountants.
- Unknown
- I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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