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- I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.
- Mae West (1892 - 1980)
- He who has never hoped can never despair.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.
- Duke of Wellington
- ...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"
- The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
- John Gay (1685 - 1732)
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.
- Poet Louise Bogan
- American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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