It's a very odd thing / As odd as can be / That whatever Miss T. eats / Turns into Miss T.

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CHRIS TARRANT

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CALVIN TRILLIN

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NICOLE EGGERT

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel we...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND

...they didn’t think there was anything very odd in anyone being a little odd.
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ABEL FERRARA

We all die, it's a fact that today you aren't here, yesterday you weren't here doesn't mean that tom...
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SHEL SILVERSTEIN

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CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.
PATSY CLINE

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

you can never love someone as much as you miss them.
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BRUCE GREENWOOD

That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER

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BONO I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front li...
MICHAEL CONNELLY

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TERRY PRATCHETT

A miss is as good as a mile
AMERICAN PROVERB I don't miss acting at all.
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LILY RABE

I cannot love, I want to be alone
I will not love, I want to be alone
LAURA MARLING

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
DAN SIMMONS

The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.
CALVIN JOHNSON

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EARL SWEATSHIRT

I think I was just very odd.
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MERLE HAGGARD

Isn't it odd that some groups view being legally equal to other groups as 'oppression'?
CHRISTINA ENGELA

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ED SHEERAN

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ARNOLD PALMER It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.
ERIC SAN It is a pretty odd profession - tickling people - but it can be lucrative.
GEORGE MILLER We'll go from best mates to rivals, which can be a bit odd.
CHRIS HOY Here we are paying health care for a doctor. It strikes me as odd.
DAVE RALSTON I miss parts of it. I don't miss the actual place. That's never as good as you remember it.
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DAVID LAGERCRANTZ Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
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You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
JOHN GREEN It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.
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RAJAT MOHAN

What we don't know can't hurt us.
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AL MACINNIS I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I lea...
FLUME

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
WAYNE GRETZKY

We don't want to miss anybody or slight anybody.
BOB ANDERSON I don't miss film projecting. I always hated it.
EMMANUEL LUBEZKI As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that t...
LAURA ESQUIVEL Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.
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MONICA LEWINSKY An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
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PAULA DEEN

I don't miss being in the dugout - I'll make that clear.
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VICTORIA PRATT

Tinder, sucks… few matches I got.... How FUCKING odd is that.
DEYTH BANGER

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PEYTON MANNING I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.
MORGAN BRITTANY

I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

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DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI")

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Knocking on the moonlit door.
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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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In short, Luck's always to blame.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!
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The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
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We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
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Only the great can afford to have great defects.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
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We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
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It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
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Few people know how to be old.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
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One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Usually we praise only to be praised.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE

Even if they end up together, which I highly doubt, given the strength of that particular bond-...-b...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ

Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

It's a very odd thing / As odd as can be / That whatever Miss T. eats / Turns into Miss T.

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It's a very odd thing / As odd as can be / That whatever Miss T. eats / Turns into Miss T.

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