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#1

“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: insanity, love, marriage

#2

“Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: definition, humor, universe

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#3

“Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

131 likes

#4

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

tags: attitude, definitions, fear, happiness, orthodoxy, puritanism, strictness

519 likes

#5

“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: cynic, definitions

353 likes

#6

“On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.”
― H. L. Mencken

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#7

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
― H.L. Mencken, A Little Book In C Major

tags: democracy

208 likes

#8

“Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”
― H.L. Mencken

109 likes

#9

“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: politics

86 likes

#10

“Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: security, self-respect

67 likes

#11

“Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.”
― H. L. Mencken

66 likes

#12

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
― James Baldwin

tags: social-commentary

640 likes

#13

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom

7770 likes

#14

“Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.”
― Fran Lebowitz

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#15

“A book is not supposed to be a mirror. It's supposed to be a door.”
― Fran Lebowitz

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#16

“The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.”
― Fran Lebowitz

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#17

“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.”
― fran lebowitz

tags: teenagers

137 likes

#18

“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”
― Fran Lebowitz

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#19

“Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.”
― Fran Lebowitz

59 likes

#20

“I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.”
― Fran Lebowitz

64 likes

#21

“I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once.”
― Fran Lebowitz

67 likes

#22

“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.”
― Fran Lebowitz

tags: new-york-city

73 likes

#23

“All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.”
― Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life/Social Studies

68 likes

#24

“I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.”
― Fran Lebowitz

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#25

“polite conversation is rarely either”
― Fran Lebowitz

tags: relationship-advice

50 likes

#26

“All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.”
― Fran Lebowitz

tags: writers, writing

44 likes

#27

“Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

32 likes

#28

“I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.”
― Fran Lebowitz

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