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I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts. ~Graham Kerr



Kittens are angels with whiskers. ~Author Unknown



I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. ~Mae West



The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez



When you catch bugs early, you also get fewer compound bugs. Compound bugs are two separate bugs that interact: you trip going downstairs, and when you reach for the handrail it comes off in your hand. ~Paul Graham, "The Other Road Ahead," 2001



One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen. ~Leo Tolstoy



I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, and the schools so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut. ~John Kenneth Galbraith



For every promise, there is price to pay. ~Jim Rohn



Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor. ~Irish Proverb



This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 3



If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners - let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. ~Aldous Huxley



If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches. ~Norman McLaren If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere



The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. ~Fred Allen



After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers. ~Emily Luchetti



If you don't take care of yourself, the undertaker will overtake that responsibility for you. ~Carrie Latet



The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant is alone enough to upset Darwin. ~Henry Adams, Education, 1907



If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. ~Georges Courteline, La philosophie de Georges Courteline, 1917



I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. ~Marlene Dietrich



It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta. ~Dave Barry