"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
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"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman."
"To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains."
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."
"Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness."
"Never have more children than you have car windows."
"If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!"
"Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in; fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well! It must have been made to have me in it!"
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
"Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot."
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story."
"My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings"
"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead."
"Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares."
"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'"
"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use."
"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank."
"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
"Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee."
"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer"