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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, Let's use the missiles. They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
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They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.
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all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!
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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.
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The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.
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Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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