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I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams
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I love deadlines.
I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
- Douglas Adams
In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
- Douglas Adams
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have always found the Irish a bit odd.
They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
Nothing will end war unless
the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
A Bill of Rights is what the people are
entitled to against every government,
and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Thomas Jefferson
What is true of the individual will be
tomorrow true of the whole nation
if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound
to the starless midnight of racism and war
that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood
can never become a reality...
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
- inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer 
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Times like these, dark times,
they do funny things to people.
They can tear them apart.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is,
he's stuck with so many bad actors
who don't know how to play funny.
- Garrison Keillor
To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you're drowning, you don't say,
"I would be incredibly pleased if someone
would have the foresight to notice
me drowning and come and help me,"
you just scream.
- John Lennon
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
Marriage is a fine institution -
but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
- Mae West
Don't threaten me with a dead fish.
- the movie Withnail & I (1987)
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.
- the movie The Little Mermaid (1989)
Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks
I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
I got a good mind to join a club
and beat you over the head with it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her,
and after half an hour
I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.
- the movie Take the Money and Run (1969)
Oh no, I can't do anything to the death.
Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition,
and death is the worst thing for it.
- the movie Love and Death
Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
If he's first class, I'm traveling steerage.
- the movie Libeled Lady (1936)
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell
I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary (2001)
Donkey, you HAVE the right to remain silent.
What you lack, is the capacity.
- said by Shrek in the movie Shrek 2
I have a very low threshold of death.
My doctor says I can't have bullets enter my body at any time.
- the Woody Allen movie Casino Royale
Still, things could be a lot worse.
Oh, that's right... I'm falling to my death. Guess they can't.
- the movie Megamind (2010)
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
DON'T get officious.
You're not yourself when you're officious -
That is the curse of a government job.
- the movie Harold and Maude (1971)
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
You know what? Maybe there's a good reason
donkeys shouldn't talk.
- the movie Shrek (2001)
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
- W. C. Fields
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- Steve Martin
Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes
in the hope of pulling out an eel.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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