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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.


Franklin P. Adams

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DEREK THOMPSON It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
SOURCE UNKNOWN It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
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DR. PAOLO BOFFETTA Manners are nothing more than thinking about somebody else.
LETITIA BALDRIGE Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Because nobody knows you better than somebody who knew you way back then.
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JOE FERRER We are all men out here. Nobody gets scared if you yell at somebody.
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JEFF THOMAS Vote in all of the elections, not just for president and governor.
LEO SCODA Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly
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MARK HOLTHAUS Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
LORD CHESTERFIELD People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I wrote '33 Men' in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and...
JONATHAN FRANKLIN I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She&...
ARETHA FRANKLIN Time is the glue that bonds a broken heart, but love is the air which dries the glue. -J. Franklin.
J. FRANKLIN Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN