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When you can laugh at yourself no one can ever make a fool of you.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I was dating a transvestite, and my mother said, “Marry him, you’ll double your wardrobe.”
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Nothing is yours permanently so you better enjoy it while it’s happening.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Here’s a Thanksgiving tip. Generally, your turkey is not cooked enough if it passes you the cranberry sauce.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers If you laugh at it, you can deal with it.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I got a waterbed, but my husband stocked it with trout.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I’d look like without plastic surgery.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Elizabeth Taylor’s so fat she puts mayonnaise on aspirin.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers My mother could make anybody feel guilty – she used to get letters of apology from people she didn’t even know.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers We don’t apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don’t get it, then don’t watch us.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers When my husband Edgar and I were courting, he said he couldn’t wait to have a baby. It was only after we were married that he changed his mind and decided that I should have the baby.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers
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Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
Melody LeeMelody Lee Oh moonlight, continue to shine on me. As you light up the sky, maybe some peace will come to me.
ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Live to be happy not to impress.
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Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
ThucydidesThucydides Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature’s calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz I’ve learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
Andy RooneyAndy Rooney At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn’t kill. He lets it live. Because you can’t kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.
Sylvester StalloneSylvester Stallone Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy, Repeats while he binds his tomatoes: No other end of the world will there be, No other end of the world will there be.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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