"I didn't ask for it to be over. But then again I didn't ask for it to begin. For that's the way it is with life, as some of the most beautiful days come completely by chance. But even the most beautiful days eventually have their sunset"

Javan on chance
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"The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in."

Copeland, William Taylor on opportunity
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"Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time."

Fleming, Ian on sex
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"But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it."

Viorst, Judith on age and aging   

"Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford--but you'll take him anyway."

Viorst, Judith on infatuation
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"Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia."

Viorst, Judith on love   

"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."

Balzac, Honore De on marriage
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"If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry."

Porter, O. Henry on women
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"Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done."

Coffin, R.P.T. on universe
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"I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night."

Corelli, Marie on marriage
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"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao-Tzu on courage
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"Life is one long process of getting tired."

Butler, Samuel on life
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"A conservative sees a man drowning 50 feet from shore, throws him a 25 foot long rope, and tells him to swim to it. A liberal throws him a rope 50 feet long, then drops his end and goes off to perform another good deed."

Unknown, Source on conservatives   

"A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you."

Unknown, Source on business
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"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life."

Buckrose, J.E on happiness
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"Love: Before I heard the doctors tell The dangers of a kiss; I had considered kissing you. The nearest thing to bliss. But now I know biology and sit and sigh and moan; six million mad bacteria and I thought we were alone!"

Unknown, Source on kisses and kissing
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"Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last."

Gourmont, Remy De on women
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"Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden."

Proverb, Chinese on pleasure
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"The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?"

Hamnett, Katharine on dress   

"Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while."

Magnani, Anna on love   

"There is always someone better for you, but there is only one person thats right for you"

Cabral, Jose on
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