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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.

Leonardo Da Vinci
Italian engineer, painter, & sculptor (1452 - 1519)


Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli
US actress & singer (1946 - )


There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

Lester J. Pourciau


Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government."

Lenny Bruce
(1923 - 1966)


Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Leo Tolstoy
Russian mystic & novelist (1828 - 1910)


If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.

Leo Rosten
US (Polish-born) author (1908 - )


Like having your own licence to print money.

Lord Thomson of Fleet


Know the masculine, keep to the feminine.

Lao Tzu


If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Lin Yutang


The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year --- everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.

Lilly Tomlin, as Ernestine the Operator


Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Lily Tomlin
US actress & comedienne (1939 - )


Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses.

Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow', 1932


I rely on my personality for birth control.

Liz Winston


I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.

Lesley Boone.


Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.

Lillian Hellman
US dramatist (1905 - 1984)


When mom found my diaphram, I told her it was a bathing cap for my cat.

Liz Winston


In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

Lauren Bacall


Daughters go into analysis hating their fathers and come out hating their mothers. They never come out hating themselves.

Laurie Jo Wojcik


My father was often angry when I was most like him.

Lillian Hellman
US dramatist (1905 - 1984)


Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

Laurie Colwin




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