funny women quotes

Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. ~W.H. Auden, A Certain World



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It's not what you wear - it's how you take it off. ~Author Unknown



My heaviness comes from the heights. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit. ~Maureen Murphy



The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ~Benjamin Franklin



Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. ~James C. Dobson



It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. ~Agnes Repplier



Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author? ~Philip G. Hamerton



Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ~James Baldwin



It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. ~Mick Jagger



There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ~Charles Horton Cooley



Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed. ~Charles Schulz, Peanuts



There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. ~Charles Kingsley



Don't take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here. ~Author unknown, attributed to both Dan and Barbara Hladio and Thomas Boyadjis, Sr.



Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness. ~Kahlil Gibran



Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb