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1. "A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her... but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account."

William Somerset Maugham, "The Moon and Sixpence"

categories: Forgiveness -:- Woman and Man

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2. "A woman can only become a man's friend in three stages: first, she's an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress, and only after that a friend."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, "Uncle Vanya"

categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Woman and Man

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3. "A woman is a hunter without a forest."

Christina Stead

categories: Various -:- Woman and Man

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4. "A woman is four times as shy, six times as brave and eight times as lusty as a man."

Chanakya

categories: Woman and Man

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5. "A woman never shot a man while he was doing dishes."

Anon.

categories: Woman and Man

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6. "A woman who runs off with her lover is not abandonning her husband: she is sparing him a disloyal wife."

Sacha Guitry

categories: Loyalty and Betrayal -:- Marriage

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7. "A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on."

Oscar Wilde

categories: Woman and Man -:- Manners and Ethics

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8. "A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, "English Notebooks"

categories: Various -:- Woman and Man

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9. "A woman's greatest power is her vulnerability."

Anon.

categories: Power and Weakness -:- Woman and Man

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10. "A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love."

Franz Grillparzer, "Sappho"

categories: Love -:- Woman and Man

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11. "A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream."

Gaston Bachelard

categories: Art and Culture -:- Dreams and Desires

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12. "A word is elegy to what it signifies."

Robert Hass, "Meditation at Lagunitas"

categories: Art and Culture -:- Oration and Silence

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13. "A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me."

Vladimir Nabokov, "Strong Opinions"

categories: Art and Culture

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14. "A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."

William Faulkner

categories: Art and Culture -:- Truth and Falsity

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15. "A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

Thomas Mann

categories: Art and Culture

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16. "A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer."

Karl Kraus

categories: Art and Culture

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17. "A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others."

William Faulkner

categories: Art and Culture -:- Reality and Imagination

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18. "A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."

Gertrude Stein

categories: Art and Culture

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19. "A young person knows the rules but the old person knows the exceptions."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

categories: Youth and Age

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20. "Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

Zig Ziglar

categories: Success and Fame

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21. "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

Louis Leo Holtz

categories: Work and Laziness -:- Talent and Genius

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22. "About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends."

Herbert Hoover

categories: Time and Passing

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23. "Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering."

Theodore Roosevelt

categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Life and Death

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24. "Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and fan a fire."

François de La Rochefoucauld

categories: Various

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25. "Absence of proof is not proof of absence."

William Cowper

categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

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26. "Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Oration and Silence

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27. "Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

categories: Various

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28. "Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books."

Elbert Green Hubbard

categories: Education

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29. "Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

William James

categories: Pain and Tears

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30. "Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

categories: Manners and Ethics

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31. "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

William James

categories: Various

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32. "Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life.... The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis."

Marlon Brando

categories: Art and Culture -:- Health and Alcohol

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33. "Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept."

Laurette Taylor

categories: Art and Culture

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34. "Action is the proper fruit of knowledge."

English proverb

categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

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35. "Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

categories: Egoism -:- Manners and Ethics

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36. "Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle."

Anon.

categories: Various -:- Youth and Age

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37. "Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger."

Louis Leo Holtz

categories: Various -:- Question and Problem

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38. "Advertising is legalized lying."

Herbert George Wells

categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Various

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39. "Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need."

Will Rogers

categories: Various

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40. "Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century."

Marshall McLuhan

categories: Art and Culture -:- Various

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41. "Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."

George Santayana

categories: Various -:- Good and Evil

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42. "Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it."

Stephen Leacock

categories: Various

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43. "Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."

Anon.

categories: Various

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44. "Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than through grave teaching."

Baltasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

categories: Education -:- Wit and Humor

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45. "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."

Erica Jong

categories: Various -:- Question and Problem

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46. "Advice, n. The smallest current coin."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

categories: Various

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47. "After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies."

Cynthia Ozick

categories: Youth and Age

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48. "After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it."

Anon.

categories: Life and Death -:- Question and Problem

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49. "After hearing two eyewitness accounts of the same accident, you begin to wonder about history."

proverb

categories: Truth and Falsity

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50. "After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

categories: Marriage

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