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Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.

—George Eliot, 1876

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

—Ernest Hemingway, 1954

Big head, little wit.

—French proverb

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

—Horace Walpole, 1745

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

—Marty Feldman, 1969

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

—George Washington, 1796

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965

The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970

So many men, so many opinions.

—Terence, 161 BC

Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

—Julie Burchill, 1986