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To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers One of the most rebellious things a woman can do is allow people to think she’s mean.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers With age comes wisdom. You don’t need big boobs to be feminine. Look at Liberace.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I use a smoke alarm as a timer.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Don’t cook. Don’t clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I was so ugly that my parents sent my picture to ‘ripley’s believe it or not’ – they sent it back and said, “we don’t believe it.”
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Thank God we’re living in a country where the sky’s the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers If you don’t want gays in the military, make the uniforms ugly.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was not adopted.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she’s a tramp.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I wish I could tell you it gets better. It doesn’t get better. You get better.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Life goes by fast. Enjoy it…Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Better laid than never.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Life is a movie, and you’re the star. Give it a happy ending.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers
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Sadness shoots a bullet straight at your heart and love buys you time.
Shelby CaudleShelby Caudle Do you think it possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson It’s been a long time since we said goodbye and yet the echoes of it are still ringing in our ears.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt We can always walk with them in the rain instead of just lending an umbrella.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
Fareena AliyaFareena Aliya What do you do when the passion burns out? Start another fire.
Jonny OxJonny Ox To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.
Linus PaulingLinus Pauling Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Most people die at age 25 and are buried at age 65.
Myles MunroeMyles Munroe Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
James WatsonJames Watson The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.
Ava GardnerAva Gardner We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
Elton JohnElton John I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.
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