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“ One things there's no getting by,
I've been a wicked girl,
Says I...
But, if I can't be sorry I might as well be glad ! ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.”
― Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky and Other Poems

“ I'd like to kiss you, Darling, but I just washed my hair. ”
― Tallulah Bankhead

“ When a girl is seventeen she needs good parents. When she's twenty-five she needs a pretty face and figure. When she's thirty-five she needs a good personality. When she's fifty-five she needs cash. ”
― Sophie Tucker

“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker

“If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”
― Groucho marx

“If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask.

If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask.

If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand.

If you want a partner in life take my hand.

I'm your man.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Only the gentle are ever really strong.”
― James Dean

“A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.”
― Anita Loos

“Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.”
― Woody Allen

“Baclli swarm within my portals

Such as ne'r conceived by mortals,

But, bred by scientists,

Wise and hoary in some Olympian laboratory.

Bacteria as large as mice

With feet of fire and heads of ice,

Who never interrupt for slumber

Their stomping, elephantine rumba.

( From the poem--- " The Common Cold " )”
― Ogden Nash

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.”
― Mae West

“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.”
― Jim Henson

“He made her feel small. Since there weren’t too many men out there who could make her feel small, this frightened her a bit. It actually frightened her more than the huge sword slung across his back.”
― Laura Hunsaker, Highland Destiny

“Kidnapping is a national past time to these Scots and they do it for the sheer pleasure of making each other miserable.”
― Claire Robyns

“You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“There is no shelter in you anywhere.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“This book, when I am dead, will be
A little faint perfume of me.
People who knew me well will say,
She really used to think that way.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems

“Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer from it that increases.”
― Francoise Sagan

“It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.”
― Tallulah Bankhead