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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Haie looked round once again and said wrathfully, satisfied and rather mysteriously: Revenge is black-pudding. — Erich Maria Remarque

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

When you go deep inside nothing is all there is. There is no 'I am'. The 'I am' merges in the Absolute. — Nisargadatta Maharaj

Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world. — Susan Rice

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Gossip about the feelings of others when we cannot fully understand them, and they may not understand them themselves, can be a cause of distress. — P.D. James

I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me. — William Howard Taft

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair. — Edward Abbey

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover. — Robert A. Heinlein

If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

You do not notice changes in what is always before you. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?' — Alan Alda

If we are expected to show a gentle compassion for humanity, shouldn't we all have a wash care label sewn into each & everyone of us? — Josh Stern

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. — Paul Theroux

Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale. — Steve Hockensmith

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Find your reason and hold it tight. — Courtney Giardina

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Whales and dolphins have been aquatic for about 70 million years and seals for between 25 and 30 million years. — Elaine Morgan

The eyes are the nipples of the face — Anna Faris

At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette