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- Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Here's to our wives and sweethearts - may they never meet.
- John Bunny
- Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when the words won't come at all and the other is logorrhea, when the words come so fast that they can hardly get to the wastebasket in time.
- Cecilia Bartholomew
- A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
- E.M. Cioran
- The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
- Arthur Balfour
- Mother is the dead heart of the family, spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches television.
- Germaine Greer
- I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.
- S.J. Perelman
- The covers of this book are too far apart.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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