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Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
[Anger]

No man thinks clearly when his fists are clenched.

Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
[Patriotism]

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
[Politics]

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

The most poignantly personal autobiography of a biographer is the biography he has written of another man.
[Writing]

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

Whether by design or accident, the fact remains that, with one small exception, no girl with a fancy Christian name has ever diverted the eye of a President of the United States to the matrimonial altar.
[Marriage]

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.


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