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Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) by Linux fortune

"My life is a soap opera, but who has the rights?"
        -- MadameX
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but
the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they
have obtained from books of travel.
                -- Mark Twain
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie;
and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head
into the shop. "What! no soap?" So he died, and she very imprudently
married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand
Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all
fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran
out at the heels of their boots.
                -- Samuel Foote
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more
deadly in the long run.
                -- Mark Twain
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to
be discarded:  that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
QOTD:
        "My life is a soap opera, but who gets the movie rights?"
Schmidt's Observation:
        All things being equal, a fat person uses more soap
        than a thin person.
Slurm, n.:
        The slime that accumulates on the underside of a soap bar when
        it sits in the dish too long.
                -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
work, n.:
        The blessed respite from screaming kids and
        soap operas for which you actually get paid.
        "What did you do when the ship sank?"
        "I grabbed a cake of soap and washed myself ashore."
SANTA CLAUS comes down a FIRE ESCAPE wearing bright blue LEG WARMERS
... He scrubs the POPE with a mild soap or detergent for 15 minutes,
starring JANE FONDA!!
... the MYSTERIANS are in here with my CORDUROY SOAP DISH!!
When I met th'POPE back in '58, I scrubbed him with a MILD SOAP or
DETERGENT for 15 minutes.  He seemed to enjoy it ...
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