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"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make a nice lemon butter sauce instead. Then maybe life will give you a lobster. Or, if you're a vegetarian, a nice artichoke, or perhaps some asparagus.

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— Colie

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"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

tags: exercise, humor, laziness
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"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
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"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
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"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. "
— Bill Gates

tags: humor, work
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"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
— Albert Einstein

tags: creativity, humor
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"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor
2,824 people liked it

"I love you like a fat kid loves cake!"
— Scott Adams

tags: food, humor, love
955 people liked it

"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

tags: cats, humor, life
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"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch."
— Orson Welles

tags: food, humor
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"Humor is reason gone mad."
— Groucho Marx

tags: humor, reason
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"Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before."
— Steven Wright

tags: amnesia, humor, memory
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"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
— Charles Lamb

tags: humor, work
655 people liked it

"Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it."
— David Sedaris

tags: humor, perception, retardation
409 people liked it

"The covers of this book are too far apart."
— Ambrose Bierce

tags: books, criticism, humor, wit
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"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
— Groucho Marx

tags: humor, life
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"Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice."
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

tags: humor
425 people liked it

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh?' he whispered.
'Yes, Piglet?'
'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

tags: friendship
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"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
— Donna Roberts

tags: friendship
1,344 people liked it

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."
— Helen Keller

tags: friendship
1,077 people liked it

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

tags: chocolate, friendship
1,967 people liked it

"'We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
'Even longer,' Pooh answered."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

tags: friendship
717 people liked it

"Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next."
— Dean Koontz (Fear Nothing)

tags: friendship
201 people liked it

"'Why did you do all this for me?" he asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.'
'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.'"
— E.B. White (Charlotte's Web)

tags: friendship
239 people liked it

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."
— John Holmes

tags: friendship
73 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
10,386 people liked it

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

tags: it-s-so-true
2,239 people liked it

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: monroe
1,870 people liked it

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

tags: be, inspirational, yourself
1,545 people liked it

"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: girls, love
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"Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world."
— Marilyn Monroe

514 people liked it

"Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world."
— Marilyn Monroe

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"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!"
— Marilyn Monroe

168 people liked it

"I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: ambition, dreams
128 people liked it

"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: marilyn, monroe
219 people liked it

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
— Marilyn Monroe

873 people liked it

"I just want to be wonderful."
— Marilyn Monroe

239 people liked it

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition"
— Timothy Leary

tags: feminism, women
150 people liked it

"It's all make believe, isn't it?"
— Marilyn Monroe

167 people liked it

"I restore myself when I'm alone."
— Marilyn Monroe

160 people liked it

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone."
— Marilyn Monroe

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"Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you."
— Marilyn Monroe

193 people liked it

"I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: appearance, jokes, marilyn-monroe
153 people liked it

"I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: marilyn, monroe
77 people liked it

"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."
— Marilyn Monroe

203 people liked it

"The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream."
— Marilyn Monroe

262 people liked it

"I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
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— Ron White

tags: lemons, life, party
40 people liked it

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