If you can't lick 'em, join 'em


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If you cant beat 'em cooperate 'em to death!
CHARLES M. SCHULZ
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
GENE NUDO
So, we decided, if you can't beat 'em, just join 'em.
RICK ALLEN
Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
TRE COOL
if you can't beat 'em, bribe 'em
JOHN KOVACICH
If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em.
SHERRY ARGOV
Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
TRE COOL
If you can’t beat em, buy em out.
PRABHUDOSS SAMUEL
If somebody mistreats you, treat ’em good. That kills ’em.
BOBBY BOWDEN
You underestimate yourself if you think any woman would have to pretend to have feelings for you.
AMY TINTERA
Of course I wasn't pretending!” The words exploded out of her before she could stop them. Heat spr...
AMY TINTERA
They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they ge...
JOHN WILLIAM MCCORMACK
My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
LORETTA LYNN
You make 'em, I amuse 'em.
DR. SEUSS
You kill 'em, we grill 'em!
BART SIMPSON
I am weird, and you know what? That's OK. So are most interesting people.
EM BAILEY
... it looked at me as it passed, smiling in that crazy-happy way that dogs do. And I started laughi...
EM BAILEY
You make 'em, I amuse 'em.
DR. SEUSS
You tell 'em, big boy; treat 'em rough.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait.
CHARLES READE
Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus...
STEVE JOBS
I fund ?em, Ralph builds ?em and Jim sells ?em.
BOB BALES
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering hap...
URSULA K. LE GUIN
I'm going to be the unapologetic chief advocate, chief salesman for American agriculture product...
SONNY PERDUE
You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
CASEY STENGEL
I do have big tits. Always had 'em -- pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? ...
DOLLY PARTON
I do have big tits. Always had 'em-pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've ...
DOLLY PARTON
How ya gonna find out if they're fresh troops if ya don't wake 'em up and ask 'em?
WILLIAM H. MAULDIN
Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.
CHARLES READE
Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and ...
PATRICK NESS
Don't stroke 'em, don't tickle 'em, just give 'em a ruddy good belt
FRED TRUEMAN
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whate...
GEORGE ORWELL
You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
CASEY STENGEL
Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!
TERRY PRATCHETT
Kill me if I ever look that Bad" . . . "Dude, what are you saying? . . . On the TV? That is...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Let' em learn or let' em die
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Would be nice even I can get it back, you know. Whoever get 'em please no questions ask, just give m...
DARREN BENITEZ
What'd you get 'em?
ANDY GRIFFITH
You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.
JULIAN FELLOWES
Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.
JEPH JACQUES
Hang 'em first, try 'em later.
ROY BEAN
Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.
IVAN TURGENEV
I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.
WILLIE MAYS
And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.
JOSEPH ADDISON
One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find 'em. The ob...
BENNY GOODMAN
Work 'em hard, play 'em hard, feed 'em up to the nines and send 'em to bed so tired that they are as...
FRANK L. BOYDEN
It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know ...
HARRY CARAY
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wr...
THOMAS FULLER
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you ...
THOMAS FULLER
If I flop, let 'em pan me.
KNUTE ROCKNE
Joke 'em if they can't take a fuck.
ANONYMOUS.
God made alcohol and he made feet - and he made 'em so you could put 'em together and be happy!
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.
PATRICK NESS
She gives 'em the shoulder, gives 'em the arm. She plays physical.
MARQUENA DELK
Same plan," agreed Dimitri. "You go to the house. You look less threatening."
"Hey!"
He sm...
RICHELLE MEAD
If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!
JOHN WATERS
I tell ya, if you want to disperse a crowd, start spittin' on 'em.
KENT NICHOLS AND DOUGLAS SARINE
There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
YOGI BERRA
You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run
KENNY ROGERS
One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find ...
BENNY GOODMAN
Women!” he muttered. “Can't live with 'em, can't escape even by killing 'em.
NAOMI KRAMER
I thought we were just going to water 'em and watch 'em grow.
JOSH LEWIS
Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
MARY WEBB
It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and l...
HARRY CARAY
E aqui é que reside a tragédia da guerra: transforma homens maus em homens bons, homens bons em ho...
DAVID SOARES
Be a awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down.
JIMMY DURANTE
Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So th...
RALPH ELLISON
The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give...
JANE BRYANT QUINN
Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. ...
PETE ROSE
Billy Wilder once told me, 'Make 'em personal,' ... 'But make 'em for the people.'
CAMERON CROWE
I had to do whatever it takes to beat 'em. We should've beat 'em.
CORY MOUNTAIN
Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only...
D.H. LAWRENCE
Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. Y...
KENNY ROGERS
You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to...
KENNY ROGERS
Stop saying drug use makes people lazy. Jimi Hendrix did a lot of drugs, even though he's been dead ...
BILL MAHER
We give 'em baseball, but we give 'em a lot of fun along the way.
BUCK ROGERS
Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.
JOHN STEINBECK
Lord help you! Tell 'em Queen Anne's dead.
GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER
You sure know how to pick 'em, huh?
TIM CLOUGHERTY
Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff...Willie, make 'em...
ROBERT PENN WARREN
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave '...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and lea...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
How much good inside a day?
Depends how good you live ‘em.
How much love inside a friend...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
This team's got 'em in it. It just takes us a while to get 'em out.
DAN JOHNSON
Be a awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down
JIMMY DURANTE
Your lies are like a silent fart. Can't see 'em, but
I can smell 'em.
ERIC JEROME DICKEY
I don't like jeans with holes in 'em. I like 'em faded.
LIAM GALLAGHER
Bring 'Em In
BUDDY GUY
He said now you're gonna have colored baby chicks aren't you?. He made it a point to come get 'em. M...
KAY JOHNSTON
I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em ...
JONATHAN RICHMAN
If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.
DARRELL ROYAL
If you'd have your shoes last, put no nails in 'em.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
You gotta bleed 'em in 60 seconds or less.
TEMPLE GRANDIN
I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic work...
TERRI WINDLING
Today, I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of mak...
FRANçOIS TRUFFAUT
Women! Ya can't live with 'em and ya can't get 'em to wear skimpy little Nazi outfits.
EMO PHILLIPS

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