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“To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.”
“Put it out of your mind. In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.”
“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.”
“Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.”
“I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.”
“If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.”
“A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.”
Source: Love & Marriage
“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.”
“The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.”
Source: Poems: Third Series
“Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.”
“Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.”
“A promiscuous person is a person who is getting more sex than you are.”
“Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.”
“The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.”
“Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James)”
“My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?”
“Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.”
Source: Philosophical Writings: A Selection
“Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.”
Source: Mammon and the black goddess