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"Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left." – Victor Hugo

“Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.” – Victor Hugo

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils. -Pliny The Elder

"We were hoping to make about $10,000 through the carnival and gumbo festival this year." – Vicki Scott

“We were hoping to make about $10,000 through the carnival and gumbo festival this year.” – Vicki Scott

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. -Voltaire

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. -Giles, Henry

"We’re not worried, though. People are just starting to get into the Valentine’s Day spirit. Pretty soon the line in here will be out the door." – Diane Rullan

“We’re not worried, though. People are just starting to get into the Valentine’s Day spirit. Pretty soon the line in here will be out the …

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday. -Deeping, Warwick

"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." – Oscar Wilde

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” – Oscar Wilde

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. -Dostoevsky, Fyodor

"Dear soulmate, whose soul are you still mating?" – J.T. 1894

“Dear soulmate, whose soul are you still mating?” – J.T. 1894

"I think of somebody every second of every moment of every day of every week of every month of every year. How come? It’s simple: I love her." – Tommy Pole

“I think of somebody every second of every moment of every day of every week of every month of every year. How come? It’s simple: …

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man. -Epitaph

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. -Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. -Pope, Alexander

Martin Gardner

“There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.” Martin Gardner quotes

"We learned to make chocolate desserts for Valentine’s Day, and many of the recipes she taught became part of my repertoire. She was a hero to me." – Susan Schwartz

“We learned to make chocolate desserts for Valentine’s Day, and many of the recipes she taught became part of my repertoire. She was a hero …

Max Beerbohm

“To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.” Max Beerbohm quotes

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. -Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Order is power. -Amiel, Henri Frederic

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage. -Voltaire

"Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat." – Ben Hecht

“Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” – Ben Hecht

Success is like a fart — only your own smells nice. -Hogan, James P.

"Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps." – William Shakespeare

“Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.” – William Shakespeare

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. -Cioran, E. M.

Instinct is the nose of the mind. -Girardin, Madame de

"It’s not something you get every day. They’ll go all out to show their love on Valentine’s Day." – Dorothy Poindexter

“It’s not something you get every day. They’ll go all out to show their love on Valentine’s Day.” – Dorothy Poindexter

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways./ I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight / For the ends of Being and ideal Grace." – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways./ I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach, …

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn’t have any. -Wilde, Stuart

Where vice is vengeance follows. -Proverb, Scottish

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. -Delille, Jacques

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. -Toynbee, Arnold

The next point — that’s all you must think about. -Laver, Rod

Better to burn out than rust out. -Young, Neil

The self is only that which it is in the process of becoming. -Kirkegaard

Diana Nyad

“There is?nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I’ve done it with my own two arms and …

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. -Crisp, Quentin

"Don’t lose yourself… Its good to follow leaders, but its even better to become one…Become the Trend Setter." – nerissa irving

“Don’t lose yourself… Its good to follow leaders, but its even better to become one…Become the Trend Setter.” – nerissa irving

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