The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
DOROTHY PARKERIf all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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