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This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary (2001)
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 read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
Let us celebrate the occasion
with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty,
and we must rise with the occasion.
As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
- Abraham Lincoln
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about
and let that guide you to your destination.
- Diane Sawyer
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors.
I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and
am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Winston Churchill
The people of the world genuinely want peace.
Some day the leaders of the world are going to
have to give in and give it to them.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you want in life, start today.
Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon
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)
To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson
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
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
I can't stand a naked light bulb.
- the movie A Streetcar Named Desire
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
- Anonymous
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
He who marries for love without money
has good nights and sorry days.
- Anonymous
There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
If at first you don't succeed,
skydiving is not for you.
- Anonymous
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
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
- Anonymous
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
I intend to live forever, or die trying.
- Groucho Marx
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- Alexander Pope
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard
You are only young once,
but you can stay immature indefinitely.
- Anonymous
A man is incomplete until he is married.
After that, he is finished.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
When two people decide to get a divorce,
it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,
but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland
Tip the world over on its side and
everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
- Groucho Marx
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
If he's first class, I'm traveling steerage.
- the movie Libeled Lady (1936)
Give a man one rabbit, and he will eat for a day;
give a man two rabbits, and he will
feed his family and his neighbors
and return you 64,768 rabbits in change.
- Anonymous
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
Crazy is walking down the street
with half a cantaloupe on your head,
muttering; "I'm a hamster, I'm a hamster."
- the movie Spy Hard (1996)
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
- George Carlin
Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
If I had known what it would be like to have it all -
I might have been willing to settle for less.
- Lily Tomlin
I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
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