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“He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.”
Oscar Wilde
“Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night.”
Benjamin Franklin
“What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.”
Ovid
“I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.”
Robert Mueller
“When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.”
Helen Rowland
“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as possible”
George Bernard Shaw
“Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.”
Lauren Bacall
“An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.”
Ogden Nash
“I'm a believer in that, ... I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood. Although I love my family, even the ones I grew up with, to me I've always felt that the people who treated you with respect and included you in their lives were your family and the people who were related to you by blood might happen to be those people but that correlation was a lot less [strong] than society believes it is.”
Joss Whedon
“Lack is relative in comparison to what others posess. All things are not equal and never shall be on this planet”
kim booher
