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Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

—Laurence J. Peter

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Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

—Sam Levenson

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If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

—Milton Berle

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

—Oscar Wilde

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We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

—Henry Ward Beecher

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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

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I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasn't going to change unless I made it change.

—Gretchen Rubin in The Happiness Project

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She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart—or the darker places of her soul.

—Christine Feehan in Turbulent Sea

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

—Rita Rudner

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Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.

—Kin Hubbard

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There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

—Martin Gardner

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To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

—Jack Handey

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I praise loudly. I blame softly.

—Catherine the Great

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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

—Thomas Jefferson

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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

—William Butler Yeats

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