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#1

“Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance?”
― Phyllis Diller

tags: housework, humor

#2

“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.”
― Phyllis Diller

tags: children, housekeeping

317 likes

#3

“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”
― Elizabeth Peters

tags: amelia-peabody, men, women

3778 likes

#4

“I never said most of the things I said.”
― Yogi Berra

tags: misquoted, paradox

133 likes

#5

“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, men, women

6254 likes

#6

“Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments. ”
― Elizabeth Peters, The Hippopotamus Pool

tags: amelia-peabody, compliment, men

63 likes

#7

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

tags: friends, humor, people

8991 likes

#8

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

tags: humor, work

8145 likes

#9

“I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

tags: humor, sleep

198 likes

#10

“It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

113 likes

#11

“Love thy neighbor -- and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.”
― Mae West

tags: innuendo

532 likes

#12

“I vow I am, and always will be, constant and faithful in my love for you, Anais. Nothing you or anyone else does shall alter these feelings. I am forever loving, forever waiting, forever yearning...forever yours.”
― Charlotte Featherstone, Addicted

tags: fidelity, forever, love, obsession, yearning

135 likes

#13

“Does he lay with you in the grass? Does he stare up at the stars, speaking of his dreams, wishing he could roll over and kiss you and run his fingers along the breasts that tease him beneath the shirt--the shirt he knows he will carry home with him and smell and, God help him, sleep in, just so that he could be close to you?”
― Charlotte Featherstone, Addicted

tags: passionate, romance, romance-novels

31 likes

#15

“Why?” he screamed, letting the noise bellow out loud and ferocious. “Why can I not have some measure of peace?” he questioned.”
― Charlotte Featherstone, Sinful

tags: charlotte-featherstone, matthew, sinful

4 likes

#16

“I enjoyed reading when I was a boy, but these days, I read all the time and it has rather taken the pleasure out of it for me. When I am at leisure, reading is the last thing I want to do.”

“That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

tags: books-reading

32 likes

#17

“But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

tags: humor, humour, weather

157 likes

#18

“I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Diary of a Pilgrimage

tags: funny, humour, thinking

29 likes

#19

“If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.”
― Yogi Berra

tags: goals, integrity, planning, truism

419 likes

#20

“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”
― Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes

tags: funny

3000 likes

#21

“Jessica, you are a pain in the arse, do you know that? If I were not so immensely fond of you, I should throw you out the window."

She wrapped her arms about his waist and laid her head against his chest. "Not merely 'fond,' but 'immensely fond.' Oh Dain, I do believe I shall swoon."

"Not now," he said crossly. "I haven't time to pick you up.”
― Loretta Chase, Lord of Scoundrels

tags: humor, jessica-trent, romance

178 likes

#22

“I must be besotted,” he said evenly. “I have the imbecilic idea that you’re the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen. Except for your coiffure,” he added, with a disgusted glance at the coils and plumes and pearls. “That is ghastly.”

She scowled. “Your romantic effusions leave me breathless.”
― Loretta Chase, Lord of Scoundrels

tags: humor, jessica-trent, romance

137 likes

#23

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119053 likes

#24

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, temptation

7022 likes

#25

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

tags: women

8243 likes

#26

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life

21175 likes

#27

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
― George Carlin

tags: humor

3903 likes

#28

“There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.”
― George Carlin

223 likes

#29

“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

tags: indulgence, virtue

1905 likes

#30

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
― Marilyn Monroe

8741 likes

#31

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: funny

5183 likes

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