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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
- People are wrong when they say that the opera isn't what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That's what's wrong with it.
- Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
- The future is much like the present, only longer.
- Don Quisenberry
- It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.
- Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972)
- Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
- Brigid Brophy
- We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.
- Mort Sahl
- People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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