You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
DOROTHY PARKERYou can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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