Famous expressions

U.S. humorgreeting card writer
Shopping is better than sex. If you're not satisfied after shopping you can make an exchange for something you really like.

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Don Marquis

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:30:03 +0300

(1878—1937)
U.S. humorist, in Archy's Life of Mehitabel, 1933
I never think when I write; nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.

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J. De La Bruyere

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:30:03 +0300

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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

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Mark T. Shirey

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:30:02 +0300

Where there's smoke, there's smoke.

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P.J. O'Rourke

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:30:02 +0300

(1947--), Modern Manners, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.

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Yiddish proverb

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:30:02 +0300

Life is a dream--but don't wake me.

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Dave Barry

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:30:02 +0300

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U.S. humorist
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

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Elbert Hubbard

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:30:02 +0300

(1856—1915)
U.S. publisher
If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

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Fran Lebowitz

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:30:02 +0300

(1950--), Metropolitan Life, 1978
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is merely a good excuse not to play football.

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August Strindberg

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:03 +0300

(1849—1912), Swedish writer
Growing old--it's not nice, but it's interesting.

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J. De La Bruyere

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:03 +0300

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

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Mirzakarim Norbekov

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:03 +0300

Either you have money or otherwise money have you.

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P. J. O'Rourke

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:03 +0300

U.S. humorist
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

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Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:30:03 +0300

My life needs a rewind/erase button.

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Phyllis McGinley

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:30:03 +0300

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(1905—1978), The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley, 1954
Sticks and stones are hard on bones/Aimed with angry art,/Words can sting like anything/But silence breaks the heart.

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Don Marquis

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:30:02 +0300

(1878—1937)
U.S. poet and humorist
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

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Catherine Aird

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:30:04 +0300

(1930--)
English novelist
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

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Charles De Gaulle

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:30:04 +0300

(1890—1970), president of France.
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheeses?

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Olin Miller

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:30:04 +0300

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A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

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Terry Pratchett

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:30:04 +0300

(1948--)
British sci-fi author
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

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Bob Edwards

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

I'm a prohibitionist. What I propose to prohibit is the reckless use of water.

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J. De La Bruyere

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

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Martial

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

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(43—104), Roman epigrammatic poet
If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.

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Oliver Herford

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:30:05 +0300

(1863—1935)
U.S. authorillustrator
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

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Bill Owen

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:30:07 +0300

Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!

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Clark Moustakas

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:30:07 +0300

Accept everything about yourself — I mean everything;
You are you and that is the beginning and the end — no apologies, no regrets.

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Bernard De Voto

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:30:02 +0300

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(1897—1956), Mark Twain: The Ink of History
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

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F. Dostoevsky

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:30:02 +0300

But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

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Finley Peter Dunne

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:30:02 +0300

(1867—1936)
U.S. humorist
I think if people marry it ought to be for life; the laws are altogether too lenient with them.

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Henry Kaiser

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:30:02 +0300

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

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Woody Allen

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:30:02 +0300

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(1935--)
U.S. film-maker
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

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Anonymous

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

The manual says to insert disk three, but only two will fit.

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Bobcat Goldthwaite

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

U.S. comedian
America is one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

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Rupert Hughes

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

(1872—1956)
U.S. author
Women's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking.

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attributed to J. Edgar Hoover, head of the USA's FBI

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:30:02 +0300

Famous expressions

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

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Benjamin Franklin

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:49:53 +0300

(1706—1790)
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

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George Bernard Shaw

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:49:53 +0300

(1856—1950), "The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet"
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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Latin proverb

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:49:53 +0300

Bona Terra, Mala Gens

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Leo Rosten

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:49:53 +0300

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(1908—1997)
U.S. writer
Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

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Brigid De Vine

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:30:05 +0300

He took misfortune like a man--blamed it on his wife.

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Hungarian proverb

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:30:05 +0300

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.

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Mark Russell

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:30:05 +0300

U.S. humorist
How did Buffalo get its start? They cloned Cleveland.

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Tom Waits

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:30:05 +0300

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(1949--)
U.S. singer
Maybe there's no devil; it's just God when He's drunk.

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F. Dostoevsky

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:30:02 +0300

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment--as well as the prison.

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James Thurber

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:30:02 +0300

(1894—1961)
U.S. humorist
I hate women because they always know where things are.

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Mother Teresa

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:30:02 +0300

"I know God will not give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."

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Alfred North Whitehead

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:30:05 +0300

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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

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Bart Gold

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:30:05 +0300

(1970--)
Life is too short.

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Benjamin Franklin

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:30:05 +0300

(1706—1790), Poor Richard (June 1736)
Why does the blind man's wife paint herself?

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Rita Mae Brown

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:30:05 +0300

(b. 1944)
U.S. author, playwright
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there are praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

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Soren Kierkegaard

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:30:04 +0300

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What the philosophers say about Reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window which reads: Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes to be pressed, you would be fooled; for only the sign is for sale.

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Lily Tomlin

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

(1939--)
U.S. comedienne
Whatever goes up must come down, but don't expect it to come down where you can find it.

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

(1769—1821)
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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Mae West

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

(1892—1980), New York Mirror, April 6, 1958
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day--and another, in case it doesn't rain.

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P.J. O'Rourke

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

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(1947--), Modern Manners
Never transmit a sexual disease in public.

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David Letterman

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:30:04 +0300

(1947--)
U.S. talk show host
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

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Jerold Rochwald MP

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:30:04 +0300

Nuclear physics is much easier than tax law. It's rational and always works the same way.

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Tom Masson

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:30:04 +0300

(1866—1934), writer
There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.

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George Gobel,(1919-1991)

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:30:02 +0300

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U.S. comedian
Have you ever had the feeling life is a black tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?

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George Santayana

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:30:02 +0300

(1863—1952), Soliloquies in England
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

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Igor Stravinsky

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:30:02 +0300

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

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Charles Schulz, "Peanuts" comic strip

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.

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Elbert Hubbard

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

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"Pain is deeper than all thought; laughter is higher than all pain."

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Mark Twain

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

(1835—1910)
Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

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Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:30:04 +0300

(1927—1987)
U.S. writer
Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

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David Lee Roth

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:30:04 +0300

(1954--)
U.S. singer
Don't stick your tongue out unless you intend to use it.

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J. De La Bruyere

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:30:04 +0300

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

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Ambrose Bierce

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

(1842—1914)
Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

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Benjamin Franklin

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

(1706—1790), Poor Richard (July, 1742)
Death takes no bribes.

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Kehlog Albran

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.

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Alexander Pope

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

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(1688—1744)
English poet
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

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Euripedes

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

(ca. 496—406), Greek dramatist
Account ye no man happy till he die.

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Wilson Mizner

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

(1876—1933)
U.S. dramatistwit
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

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Marshall McLuhan

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

(1911—1980)
U.S. communications theorist
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

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Christopher Morley

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

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(1890—1957)
U.S. editorwriter
My theory, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

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Samuel Johnson

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

(1709—1784) to James Boswell, 18 February 1775
The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their countrymen. No, Sir; the Irish are FAIR PEOPLE; they never speak well of one another.

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Cullen Hightower

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:30:04 +0300

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex. But Congress can.

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J. De La Bruyere

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:30:04 +0300

No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

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David Russell

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

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The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

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Jean Kerr

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:30:03 +0300

(1923--)
U.S. playwright, in Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

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