When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

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About Rita Rudner

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Rita Rudner (born September 17, 1953) is an American stand-up comedian and actress. Beginning her career as a Broadway actress, Rudner noticed the lack of female comedians in New York City and turned to stand-up comedy, where she has performed for over three decades. Her performance on a variety of...

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

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I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Whenever I date a guy, I think, Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

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My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.

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When you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural. You don't worry, at first, about the friends you leave behind. But as you get older, it gets harder to build friendships. Too many defenses, too little opportunity. You get busy. And by the time you realize that you've lost the dearest best friend you've ever had, years have gone by and you're mature enough to be embarrassed by your attitude and, frankly, by your arrogance.

—Kate Jacobs in The Friday Night Knitting Club

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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

—Stephen Jay Gould

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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

—Sydney J. Harris

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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

—Samuel Butler

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