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Date Posted：2024-10-09 08:26:30Copy HTML Growing old is something you do if you're lucky It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are ingenious Before I speak I have something important to say Groucho Marx You know that look that women get when they want sex? Me neither Steve Martin When choosing between two evils I always pick the one I haven't tried before Mae West There are a number of mechanical devices which increase the sexual arousal of women, a Ferrari is one of them P J O'Rourke A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it Bob Hope All I ask is a chance to prove that money won't make me happy Spike Milligan A secret is something that is only repeated to one person at a time Robert McCrum |
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-10-21 02:10:28Copy HTML "I'm as full as a tick on a 7-day suck." Unknown |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-10-21 02:21:56Copy HTML "Some people are investments; some people are bills." Unknown |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-10-22 12:35:35Copy HTML You will become way less concerned what other people think of you when you realise how seldom they do. David Foster Wallace
Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will say enough on that subject.' - Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, 17th-century French statesman |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-10-26 09:16:57Copy HTML When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did, in his sleep, not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car. - Comedian Bob Monkhouse
On February 6, 1952, King George VI died in his sleep after a day of shooting at Sandringham. 'I hope you will arrange something like that for me,' Winston Churchill later told his doctor. 'But don't do it till I tell you.' |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-10-27 09:04:14Copy HTML This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. Dorothy Parker in a book review |
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-10-27 12:22:34Copy HTML "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." Last words of patriot Nathan Hale before the British hanged him as a spy on September 22, 1776. Some historians now dispute that he actually said that. |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-10-27 02:05:59Copy HTML "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." Last words of patriot Nathan Hale before the British hanged him as a spy on September 22, 1776. Some historians now dispute that he actually said that. You can also add 'The British are coming' and 'Give me liberty or give me death' to the myth list. |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-10-29 12:22:59Copy HTML "Suffer either the pain of discipline or the pain of regret." Unknown. |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-10-29 12:51:18Copy HTML Under capitalism, man exploits man, while under communism it's the other way around. Czech joke |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-10-29 05:43:34Copy HTML If he was going to destroy it, he would have done it in 2016. If she was going to fix it, she would have done it in the last 3.5 years. Unknown. |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-10-30 01:01:39Copy HTML The secret to life is honesty, if you can fake that you've got it made.
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce
Groucho Marx |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-10-30 03:42:01Copy HTML If he was going to destroy it, he would have done it in 2016. If she was going to fix it, she would have done it in the last 3.5 years. Unknown. If he was going to make America great again why didn't he do it when he had the chance? |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-10-30 09:50:13Copy HTML Irony is the opposite of Wrinkly. Unknown. |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-10-31 08:40:46Copy HTML If he was going to destroy it, he would have done it in 2016. If she was going to fix it, she would have done it in the last 3.5 years. Unknown. If he was going to make America great again why didn't he do it when he had the chance? Because he'd lost his magic wand the fairy godmother gave him, which meant it had to be tackled from the bottom up and that takes time |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-10-31 08:52:45Copy HTML So it'll take more than the four years he'll have (if he wins) as he'll be starting afresh. A task doomed to failure if you ask me. Unless there's a mini-Trump waiting to carry the torch in 2028. Sorry if our American cousins find talk of more Elections, before this one is over, distressing. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-11-01 03:26:44Copy HTML I am free of all prejudice, I hate everybody equally
It's morally wrong to allow a fool to keep his money
Start everyday with a smile and get it over with
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-11-01 06:24:01Copy HTML I would never die for my beliefs; I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell. |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-11-01 10:04:20Copy HTML "New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the IQ of both countries." Former New Zealand PM Rob Muldoon |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-11-02 05:14:49Copy HTML The most difficult thing is to think independently in world full of conformists. Tesla |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-11-03 01:55:14Copy HTML Farting
Women, an embarrassing biproduct of digestion.
Men, an endless source of amusement.
Source, deer camp conversations & competition. |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-11-03 06:43:02Copy HTML When one door closes, & another one opens, you are probably in prison. Unknown. |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-11-03 09:13:06Copy HTML We've learned from experience that men have never learned anything from experience. George Bernard Shaw |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-11-04 12:45:19Copy HTML Politicians and diapers must be changed often, for the same reason
Good decisions come from experience, experience comes from making bad decisions
Mark Twain |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-11-07 10:14:51Copy HTML "Listening is not just about waiting for your turn to speak. It's about absorbing what the other person is saying and making them feel they are being heard." Hemmingway. |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2024-11-08 12:35:02Copy HTML "The only reason I would take jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again." Erma Bombeck
"Don't vote, It just encourages the bastards." P.J. O'Rourke |
