Jail's Cell

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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
-- John Wooden

 

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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
-- Andrew Carnegie

 

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

 

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Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
-- Frank Moore Colby (The Colby Essays)

 

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Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and you get rid of him all weekend.
-- Zenna Schaffer

 

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Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
-- Jimi Hendrix

 

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Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
-- Samuel Palmer

 

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I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton

 

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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
-- Benjamin Franklin

 

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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

 

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
-- Mark Twain

 

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.
-- Winston Churchill

 

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Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
-- Proverb

 

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Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
-- Albert Einstein

 

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Don't let a man put anything over on you except an umbrella.
-- Mae West

 

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Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself -- like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
-- Jean Kerr

 

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Just letting everyone know I will be gone the 8th and 9th.

This guy says, 'I'm perfect for you, because I'm a cross between a macho and a sensitive man.'
I said, 'Oh, a gay trucker?'
-- Judy Tenuta

 

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If you never want to see a man again, say, 'I love you, I want to marry you. I want to have children...' - they leave skid marks.
-- Rita Rudner

 

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Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work or prison.
-- Tim Allen

 

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Men are simple things. They can survive a whole weekend with only three things: beer, boxer shorts and batteries for the remote control.
-- Diana Jordan

 

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A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner

 

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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
-- Erica Jong (How to Save Your Own Life, 1977)

 

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Never take a blind date to a silent film.
-- Geoffrey Parfitt

 

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Advice is like Castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
-- Josh Billings

 

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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
-- Wendell Johnson