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• CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Marriage is a rest period between romances.
• Another day, another death. Another sorrow, another breath. -- From "No Remorse" by Metallica
• Remorse - regret that one waited so long to do it. MENCKEN
• Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy
• Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
• Life is a disease; and the only difference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• PRIVATE SECRETARY -- a good one never misses a period.
• A hangover is the wrath of grapes.