Quotes

Quotes

Quotes to inspire and reflect

Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
She was what we used to call a suicide blond — dyed by her own hand.
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Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich
Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.
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Mae West
Mae West
I speak two languages: English and Body.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
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H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken
When women kiss it always reminds me of prize fighters shaking hands.
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Mae West
Mae West
Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor
There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men’s advances as long as they are in cash.
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Laurence J. Peter
Laurence J. Peter
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
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Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers
I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I’d look like without plastic surgery.
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Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx
She got her good looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.
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Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Doesn’t expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
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Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
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Henny Youngman
Henny Youngman
Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
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Sêneca
Sêneca
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
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George Herbert
George Herbert
How is it that the first piece of luggage on the airport carousel never belongs to anyone?
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Bob Hope
Bob Hope
I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.
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John Ruskin
John Ruskin
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the option of drowning.
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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen
That’s OK. We can walk to the kerb from here.
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Henny Youngman
Henny Youngman
I’ve called my car Flattery because it gets me nowhere.
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John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
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Max Frisch
Max Frisch
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself.
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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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J. Paul Getty
J. Paul Getty
My formula for success is to rise early, work late and strike oil.
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T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
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Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
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Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers
My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
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Henny Youngman
Henny Youngman
If at first you don’t succeed . . . so much for skydiving.
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Henny Youngman
Henny Youngman
I'm now making a Jewish porno film. 10 percent sex, 90 percent guilt
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Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
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Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers
Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.
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Edward Lear
Edward Lear
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Science is the record of dead religions.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
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Anatole France
Anatole France
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
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Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard
An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Inuit earnestly, "did you tell me?"
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Man cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.
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