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A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
Topic: Men and Women
Author: Poor Jimmys Almanac
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.
Topic: Morality
Author: Joan Didion
Moche Crye and no Wull.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Author: Sir John Fortescue
A mind's frigidity: frozen steel, dark rage, morbidity. Cold fire.
Topic: Frigidity
Author: Stephen King
Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.
Topic: Rivalry
Author: Elizabeth Fishel
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Karl Krauss
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
Topic: Death Immortality
Author: Woody Allen
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
Topic: Thought
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Topic: Enthusiasm
Author: Charles Kingsley
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy.
Topic: Change
Author: Tolstoy
Beautiful young people are acts of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.
Topic: Theater
Author: Tallulah Bankhead
I can tell thee where that saying was born, of 'I fear no colors.'
Topic: General Proverbs
Author: William Shakespeare
What doth it profit a man if he gains the who world and loses his own soul?
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Bible
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Topic: Marriage
Author: Sydney J Harris
Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind!
Topic: Hope
Author: Thomas Campbell
Live for Jesus now and spend the rest of eternity in the non-smoking section.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.
Topic: Rhetoric
Author: William Butler Yeats
He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks; News from all nations lumbering at his back.
Topic: Journalism
Author: William Cowper