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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. - Jonathan Swift

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. – Jonathan Swift

Other quotes by Jonathan Swift

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. – Jonathan Swift

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Religion
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Jonathan Swift
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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. – Jonathan Swift

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Weather
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Jonathan Swift
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Other Quotes from
Desserts
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Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not! – Author Unknown

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Desserts

I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts. – Graham Kerr

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Desserts

Pessimism is as American as apple pie — frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese. – George F. Will

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Desserts

Mousse: How pudding describes itself on its r̩sum̩! РLast Week Tonight with John Oliver

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Desserts

Random Quotes

Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Perspective

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius, a vital appropriating exercise of mind, closely allied to that which first created it. – William Rounseville Alger, “The Utility and the Futility of Aphorisms,” The Atla

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Quotations

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. – Samuel Johnson

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Art

Change of weather is the discourse of fools. – Thomas Fuller

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Change