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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.
Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.
If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him.
In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood
For many people, there is an almost power to be found in prayer.
Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!
There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it.
My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.
I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.
Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy.
Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.
Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.
In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame
A rose to the living is more Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.
A life must be saved as long as it can be no matter whose it is.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.
The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.
It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
The main thing my bookcase says about me is that I'm not French.
but his eyes were too dark for her to make out any spark in them
If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man.
Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach.
My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.
I've stabbed two people with a fork today. What's wrong with me?
The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.
Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly
Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.