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It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
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A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
- Stephen Hawking
Times like these, dark times,
they do funny things to people.
They can tear them apart.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
One day Alice came to a fork in the road
and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
His responses was a question: "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)
Here are the opinions on which my facts are based.
- Anonymous
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
Today is my day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud - laugh often.
Laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad.
Laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
- W. C. Fields
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
You are only young once,
but you can stay immature indefinitely.
- Anonymous
Anyone who thinks sitting in church
can make you a Christian must also think
that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)
I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- Steve Martin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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