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• We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid.
  She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well...
• When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute.
  But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-- and it's longer than any hour....
• When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it is only a minute.
  But, when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it is two hours....
• Owen's Law for Secretaries: As soon as you sit down with a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something that will last until the coffee is cold.
• Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin?
• She's the only girl in the world who can burn a stove .
  .. Eating her cooking is like playing Russian roulette....
• If you want to be a writer--stop talking about it and sit down and write! -- Jackie Colli
• You don't need a lid on a basket of crabs. If one of them tries to climb out, the others will pull it back down.
  -- Solomon Sho...
• Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
  Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute....