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„Mám rada iba dva druhy mužov – domácich a cudzích.“
Varianta: Ženám sa páčia len dva druhy mužov - ich vlastní a cudzí.
„Muži majú záujem o ženy s minulosťou, pretože dúfajú, že dejiny sa opakujú.“
Varianta: Mužov zaujímajú ženy s minulosťou, lebo dúfajú, že dejiny sa zopakujú.
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“I've been in more laps than a napkin.”
#685 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
“Between two evils, I generally like to pick the one I never tried before.”
Klondike Annie (1936) Sometimes quoted as: "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."'
“When you got the personality, you don't need the nudity.”
Quoted in "For Women, Monologues They Haven't Heard" by Susan Pomerance, Dramaline Publications (1985)
“I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.”
Person-to-Person interview (CBS) with Charles Collingwood, September 1959 http://books.google.com/books?id=21R_KPMzH2EC&q="I've+always+had+a+weakness+for+foreign+affairs"&pg=PA82#v=onepage
“Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.”
#684 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
Interview http://books.google.com/books?id=jU8EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22I+used+to+be+Snow+White+but+I+drifted%22&pg=PA64-IA1#v=onepage in Life magazine (18 April 1969)
“One and one is two; two and two is four; and "five will get you ten" if you work it right!”
Zdroj: My Little Chickadee (1940)
“She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”
#832 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
“Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.”
Response to an exclamation, "Goodness! What lovely diamonds!" in Night After Night (1932). She later used Goodness had nothing to do with it as the title of her autobiography (1953).
“Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?”
Sextette (1978)
Zdroj: [Quote Investigator: Exploring the Origin of Quotes, http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/20/glad-to-see/]
Zdroj: [The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations, https://books.google.com/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA625]
“Why don't you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.”
She Done Him Wrong (1933); this statement has become widely misquoted with the paraphrase: "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?"
“Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
#149 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne