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WAR
War is like love; it will always find a way.
Bertolt Brecht
WICKEDNESS
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
Alexandre Dumas
WIFE
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to comprehend his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Israel Zangwill
Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.
H.L. Mencken
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife. She has thought much worse things about you.
Jean Rostand
WOMEN
Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.
Ambrose Bierce
The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
John Barrymore
Women are like elephants to me- I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
W.C. Fields
Woman was God's second mistake.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
George Jean Nathan
There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.
Pablo Picaso
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Gloria Steinem
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton
I hate women because they always know where things are.
James Thurber
What do women want?
Sigmund Freud
WORK
I do not like work even when someone else does it.
Mark Twain
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire
WORLD
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
Horace Walpole
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.
Rita Mae Brown
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley
God created the world, but it is the Devil who keeps it going.
Tristan Bernard