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• Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

  Amy Bloomborn 1953

  • Love

• Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in my bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

  Woody Allenborn 1935Standup Comic (1999)

  • Comedy

• My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not you’ll become a philosopher.

  Socrates470–399 BC

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy