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This is just ridiculous. There's no way to explain this.


Matt Parker

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To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad<...
DOROTHY PARKER I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKER Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you; DOROTHY PARKER As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
THEODORE PARKER All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were a...
DOROTHY PARKER Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
DOROTHY PARKER There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply...
DOROTHY PARKER Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a poi...
DOROTHY PARKER I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue
And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; DOROTHY PARKER All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si...
DOROTHY PARKER I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
DOROTHY PARKER Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
JOSEPH PARKER He'd have given me rolling lands,
Houses of marble, and billowing farms,
Pearls, to trickle ...
DOROTHY PARKER Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my ...
DOROTHY PARKER Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejo...
THEODORE PARKER Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, t...
THEODORE PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infi...
DOROTHY PARKER Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word
DOROTHY PARKER They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
DOROTHY PARKER Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
THEODORE PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ...
DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER