Faina Ranevskaya

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A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.
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Collection: Princess
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Optimism is lack of information.
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Collection: Optimism
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Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long.
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Collection: Long
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Family can replace everything. So, before starting a family, one should think what's more important: family or everything.
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Collection: Thinking
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Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs?
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Collection: Intelligent
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God created women beautiful - so that men can love them - and stupid - so that they can love men.
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Collection: Beautiful
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Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.
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Collection: Hockey
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If a patient wants to live, doctors are impotent.
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Collection: Doctors
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When you get married, you'll understand what happiness is. But then it will be too late.
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Collection: Happiness
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You cannot cure sclerosis, but you can forget it.
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Collection: Forget
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A real man is one who remembers the lady's birthday, but never knows how old she is. A man who never remembers her birthday, but knows exactly how old she is, - is her husband.
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Collection: Husband
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Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.
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Collection: Unforgivable Sin
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Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.
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Collection: Cake
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Health is when it hurts in a new place every day.
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Collection: Hurt
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It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.
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Collection: People
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I had enough brain to live a stupid life.
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Collection: Stupid
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My fortune is in the fact that I don't need it.
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Collection: Needs
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I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.
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Collection: Life
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All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.
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Collection: Butterfly
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It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.
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Collection: Men
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Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide...And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled.
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Collection: Suicide
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Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.
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Collection: Dream
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Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.
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Collection: Mistake
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Women critics are amazons in climax.
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Collection: Critics
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On should life his life in such a way that even bastards remember him.
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Collection: Advice
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It's not a face, but a personal insult.
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Collection: Faces
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Beauty is a horrible power.
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Collection: Horrible