Faina Ranevskaya quotes
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“When you get married, you'll understand what happiness is. But then it will be too late.”
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“I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.”
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“Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long.”
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“Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.”
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“Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs?”
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“A real man is one who remembers the lady's birthday, but never knows how old she is. A man who never remembers her birthday, but knows exactly how old she is, - is her husband.”
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“God created women beautiful - so that men can love them - and stupid - so that they can love men.”
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“A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.”
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“You cannot cure sclerosis, but you can forget it.”
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“Family can replace everything. So, before starting a family, one should think what's more important: family or everything.”
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“If a patient wants to live, doctors are impotent.”
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“If a woman walks with her head down - she has a lover! If a woman walks with her head proudly up - she has a lover! If a woman carries her head straight - she has a lover! And actually, if a woman has a head, she has a lover!”
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“Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.”
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“Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.”
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“It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.”
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“Health is when it hurts in a new place every day.”
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“I had enough brain to live a stupid life.”
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“All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.”
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“It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.”
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“Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide...And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled.”
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“My fortune is in the fact that I don't need it.”
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“Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.”
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“Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.”
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