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• A bottle of wine, boudin rouge, and her!
• Pardonnez-moi, monsieur." (Spoken to the executioner, after she stepped on his foot.
  ) ~~ Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, d. October 16, 1793...
• A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second
  with a husband it runs the other way. -- Honore de Balzac...
• Joe sat as his dying wife's bedside. Her voice was little more than a whisper.
  "Joe, darling," she breathed, "I've got a confession to make before I go....
• Mother didn't make it to the hospital. I was born on the bus.
  Mother was furious when she had to open her pocketbook the second time. -- Jack Dougla...
• I have just learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy.
  First, let her think she's having her way. And second, let her have it. -- Lyndon B. Johnso...
• We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought.
  -- Dr. John Donne (1573-1631) -- Funeral Elegies, On the Death of Mistress Drury...
• In this world, truth can wait; she's used to it.