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I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
A great nose may be an indexOf a great soul
Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.
I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
Invisible things are the only realities.
I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.
She craved a tall glass of the fresh-squeezed lemonade from the pitcher she’d left chilling in the fridge. Two glasses served with a generous slice of pound cake with orange glaze icing sounded twice as nice.
Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.
An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.
Look at me!Look at me!Look at me NOW!It is fun to have funBut you have to know how.
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles......they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.