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"Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast."
— Marlene Dietrich

5 people liked it

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
1,798 people liked it

"If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary."
— David Sedaris (Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays)

tags: sympathy
1,688 people liked it

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
— Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)

tags: comedy, life, yourself
1,626 people liked it

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
1,491 people liked it

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said 'I don't know'."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge
1,436 people liked it

"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept."
— George Carlin

tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
1,339 people liked it

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust
1,209 people liked it

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
— Mae West

tags: humor, temptation
1,066 people liked it

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."
— Mae West

tags: evil, temptation
468 people liked it

"I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it."
— Mae West

tags: humor
401 people liked it

"I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure."
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
171 people liked it

"Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men."
— Mae West

tags: life, men
142 people liked it

"I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. "
— Mae West

tags: diamonds, diets, humor
82 people liked it

"It is better to be looked over than overlooked."
— Mae West

79 people liked it

"You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think."
— Mae West

60 people liked it

""A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up""
— Mae West

22 people liked it

"All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else."
— Mae West

16 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
7,495 people liked it

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
2,167 people liked it

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
1,982 people liked it

"Denial is much more then an Egyptian River."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
119 people liked it

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."
— Mark Twain

tags: age
782 people liked it

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: life, philosophy
3,534 people liked it

"I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ"
— Anaïs Nin

144 people liked it

"There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work."
— Anaïs Nin (Henry and June)

67 people liked it

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: life
744 people liked it

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories)

tags: sin
690 people liked it

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: growth
586 people liked it

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, quotation, wit
575 people liked it

"...but better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

tags: life
542 people liked it

"Even a broken clock is right twice a day."
— Stephen Hunt (The Court of the Air)

tags: time, wrong
11 people liked it

"If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space."
— Stephen Hunt

3 people liked it

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: churchill, funny, true, winston
477 people liked it

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
— Mark Twain

tags: animals, dogs
472 people liked it

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
3,851 people liked it

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: life
1,842 people liked it

"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!"
— Dr. Seuss

tags: humor
535 people liked it

"Today is gone. Today was fun.
Tomorrow is another one.
Every day,
from here to there,
Funny things are everywhere."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: logic, philosophy
160 people liked it

"All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!"
— Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go! and The Lorax)

tags: depressing, hopeless, lonely
104 people liked it

"You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left."
— Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)

52 people liked it

"Day
Play
We play all day.
Night
Fight
We fight all night."
— Dr. Seuss

32 people liked it

"I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you."
— Dr. Seuss

20 people liked it

"Women are made to be loved not understood."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

406 people liked it

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

364 people liked it

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

tags: future, life, past
363 people liked it

"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: creation, god, humor, man
767 people liked it

"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: power, sex
524 people liked it

"The heart was made to be broken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heartbreak, love
497 people liked it

"I have nothing to declare except my genius."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor
251 people liked it

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