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Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.

-- Lyn Karol

If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.

-- Alphonse Karr

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.

-- Margo Kaufman

Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming.

-- Guy Kawasaki

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

-- Helen Keller

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

-- Helen Keller

Such is life.

-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

-- Walt Kelly

Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that we're able to- to share the time and the relationship that we- that we do share.

-- Edward Kennedy, U.S. Senator, during a 4 November 1979 interview with Roger Mudd trying to answer the question "What is the present state of your marriage?"

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

-- Eugene Kennedy

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

-- John F. Kennedy

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

-- John F. Kennedy

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

-- John F. Kennedy

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

-- Robert Francis Kennedy

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

-- Rose Kennedy

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.

-- Jean Kerr

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

-- Jean Kerr

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

-- Søren Kierkegaard

To love another person is to help them love God.

-- Søren Kierkegaard

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

-- Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 1963

Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. Do to us what you will and we shall continue to love you.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

-- Sam Kinison

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

-- Henry Kissinger

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

-- Henry Kissinger

A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

-- Marvin Kitman

Love to eat them mousies
Mousie's what I love to eat.
Bite they little heads off
Nibble on they tiny feet.

-- B. Kliban

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

-- Alfred A. Knopf

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

-- F. M. Knowles

Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

-- Ernie Kovacs

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

-- William Kunstler, lawyer, 1994