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“When you're alone you don't do much laughing.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous.”
― G K Chesterton

“Only the insane take themselves seriously.”
― Max Beerbohm

“I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music.”
― Honore de Balzac

“They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for awhile, then closes
Within a dream.”
― Ernest Dowson, The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

“Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

“One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, In the Mecca

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.”
― Rose Macauley

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
― Joseph Joubert

“There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.”
― A J P Taylor

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.”
― Noel Coward

“If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still.”
― Samuel Johnson

“[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and family situations. There he must ... present a face approximating the one associated with ordinary events and companionship. He must try to utter small talk and be responsive to questions, and knowingly nod, and frown and, God help him, even smile.”
― William Styron

“The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!”
― Salvador Dali

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?”
― James Thurber

“The most precious possession that ever comes to man in this world is a woman's heart.”
― J.G. Holland

“I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Groan and forget it.”
― Jessamyn West

“It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.”
― Mamie van Doren

“I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.”
― Irene Mayer Selznick

“Anyone who's a great kisser, I'm always interested in.”
― Cher

“I'll buy something because I love it.”
― Lori Petty

“I went into a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.”
― Steven Wright

“The idea of life is to give and receive.”
― Dizzy Gillespie