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I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on
believing that some men are my equals.
-- Brigid Brophy
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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 623 of 2327 |
I remember once being on a station platform in Cleveland at four in the
morning. A black porter was carrying my bags, and as we were waiting for
the train to come in, he said to me: "Excuse me, Mr. Cooke, I don't want to
invade your privacy, but I have a bet with a friend of mine. Who composed
the opening theme music of 'Omnibus'? My friend said Virgil Thomson." I
asked him, "What do you say?" He replied, "I say Aaron Copeland." I said,
"You're right." The porter said, "I knew Thomson doesn't write counterpoint
that way." I told that to a network president, and he was deeply unimpressed.
-- Alistair Cooke
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 624 of 2327 |
I remember Ulysses well... Left one day for the post office
to mail a letter, met a blonde named Circe on the streetcar,
and didn't come back for 20 years.
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 625 of 2327 |
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some
kind of loophole.
-- Leo Kessler
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I replaced the headlights on my car with strobe lights. Now it
looks like I'm the only one moving.
-- Steven Wright
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I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner
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I respect the institution of marriage. I have always thought that every
woman should marry -- and no man.
-- Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair"
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I reverently believe that the maker who made us all makes everything in New
England, but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be
raw apprentices in the weather-clerks factory who experiment and learn how, in
New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for
countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere
if they don't get it.
-- Mark Twain
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 630 of 2327 |
"I said, "Preacher, give me strength for round 5."
He said,"What you need is to grow up, son."
I said,"Growin' up leads to growin' old,
And then to dying, and to me that don't sound like much fun."
-- John Cougar, "The Authority Song"
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