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• And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. ~ Confucius
• Carry laughter with you wherever you go. ~Hugh Sidey
• Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. ~ The Holy Bible
• If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast. ~ Ernest Hemingway
• I’m happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I’m happy in Iowa, I’m happy here in California. ~ Ashton Kutcher
• It makes you realize that people are the same wherever you go. ~ Nicholas Lea
• It’s about sharing. You just give what you have to give wherever you go, and you let God handle the rest. ~ Lindsay Wagner
• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. ~ Oscar Wilde
• Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can’t bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort. ~ Julian Schnabel
• The only rule is don’t be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in. ~ Paris Hilton
• The sky is the same color wherever you go. ~ Iranian Proverb
• These are skills we can take wherever we go in life, no matter what we do. ~ Millie Hogue
• We are going to follow wherever the facts lead us. ~ Henry Hyde
• We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch. ~ Lewis Thomas
• Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~ Confucius
• Wherever you go, God be with you. ~ I. Kamakawiwo’ole
• Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~ Anthony J. D’Angelo
• Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself. ~ Thomas a Kempis

• I always got along with all types of people – popular people as well as drug addicts. ~ Amy Sedaris
• I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself and the others for themselves. ~ Gerard De Nerval
• I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be. ~ Edward M. Forster
• I like when my man is worldly, know the finer things in life, is well traveled, and educated. It’s important to me that he’s able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers. ~ Kiana Tom
• In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people. ~ Clay Aiken
• It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people’s imagination, and all of them were very difficult women. ~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
• It’s quite nice to see that I didn’t have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people. ~ Marc Jacobs
• Personally, I like two types of men – domestic and foreign. ~ Mae West
• Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. ~ Author Unknown
• There are a billion people in China. It’s not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a billion people. That means even if you’re a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you. ~A. Whitney Brown
• There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. ~ Mark Twain
• There are four types of men in this world: 1. the man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn’t know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him. ~ Ibn Gabirol
• There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy. ~ Blaise Pascal
• There are three types of baseball players — those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened.~ Tommy Lasorda
• There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs. ~ Donnie Yen
• There are two types of people in the world, and I’m one of them. ~ Aaron Allston
• There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things and people who’ve had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them. ~ Kevyn Aucoin
• There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, “Well, here I am!” and those who come in and say, “Ah, there you are.” ~ Frederick L. Collins
• There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
• True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people. ~ Kiana Tom

• A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. ~ French Proverb
• Married couples are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. ~ Jean Rostand
• As far as I’m concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face. ~ Edith Piaf
• Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history – now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history. ~ Paul Begala
• Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with. ~ Charles Dickens
• I just don’t know a couple that’s been married more than three years that doesn’t annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes. ~ Patricia Heaton
• I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other’s pockets. I don’t see why you have to share the same bathroom. ~ Jeanne Moreau
• I think that enduring, committed love between married couples, along with raising children, is the noblest act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much. ~ Nicholas Sparks
• I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of. ~ Lisa Kudrow
• If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you’d have a lot of overlapping. ~ Mignon Mclaughlin
• In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family. ~Monica Bellucci
• I’ve stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection! ~ Salma Hayek
• Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.~ Charles Churchill
• Marriage is an institution and that’s where a couple finishes up. ~ Les Dawson
• Married couples tell each other a thousand things without talking. ~ Chinese Proverb
• Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. ~ Billie Holiday
• On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. ~ Emma Goldman
• There’s one fool at least in every married couple. ~ Henry Fielding
• Those two are a fastidious couple. She’s fast and he’s hideous. ~ Henny Youngman
• To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf? ~ Sarah Jessica Parker
• You can tell how long a couple has been married by whether they are on their first, second or third bottle of Tabasco. ~ Bruce Bye

• A man combs his hair every morning — why not his heart? ~ Chinese Proverb
• As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor? ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
• Dear God: You do such wonderful things for complete strangers; why not for me? ~ Yiddish Proverb
• For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? ~ James Allen
• I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. ~ John Barrymore
• I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me, which is pounding, saying, “Keep going. Someone must be on top; why not you?” ~ George S. Patton
• If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure — the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? ~ Virginia Woolf
• Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, “Why not?” and the other, “Why bother?” ~ Sidney J. Harris
• Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ~ Robert F. Kennedy
• Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else? ~ Alex Noble
• Some men see things as they are and say, “Why?” I of dream things that never were, and say, “Why not?” ~ George Bernard Shaw
• The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe. ~ Author Unknown
• There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not. ~ Robert F. Kennedy
• There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live. ~ Karen Horney
• We sing in a church, why can we not dance there? ~ George Bernard Shaw
• Why indeed must “God” be a noun? Why not a verb — the most active and dynamic of all. ~ Mary Daly
• Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? ~ Dame Edith Sitwell
• Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is? ~ Frank Scully
• Why not is a slogan for an interesting life. Opportunity’s favorite disguise is trouble. Fortune favors the brave. ~ Virgil
• Why not learn to enjoy the little things — there are so many of them. ~ Author Unknown
• Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation? ~ Jane Austen
• Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that? ~ William Ross
• You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
• You have to think anyway, so why not think big? ~ Donald Trump
• You see things and say “Why?” but I dream of things that never were and say “Why not?” ~ George Bernard Shaw

Behind every able man, there are always other able men. ~ Chinese Proverb

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. ~ Jim Carrey

Behind every great man there is a great woman; and behind that woman is his wife. ~ Author Unknown

Behind every man is a good woman. ~ Author Unknown

Behind every successful man are a few ex-wives and a line of new prospects. ~ Author Unknown

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. ~ Hubert H. Humphrey

Behind every successful man there are a lot of unsuccessful years. ~  Bob Brown

Behind every successful man you’ll find a woman who has nothing to wear. ~ Harold Coffin

Behind every successful man, there is a woman – And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two. ~ Author Unknown

Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman. ~ Sim York Soo

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it. ~ Arthur E. Waite

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along. ~ Lord Dewar