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- Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
- The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.
- Alexander Penney
- I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
- Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957)
- When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.
- Jacqueline Susann, after reading Portnoy's Complaint
- Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrong. The heads tend to be too big for the bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - ), Conversations With Gore Vidal - 1981
- In the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, it's often useful to have a nice, solid piece of wood in your hands.
- Ian Faith, manager of Spinal Tap
- Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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