Some
Quotations
- ~ Natural abilities are like natural plants, they need
pruning to study. -- Francis Bacon.
- ~ The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the
human mind is curiosity. -- Edmund Burke.
- ~ There are only two choices. A police state in which all
dissent is suppressed or rigidly controlled; or a society where
law is responsive to human needs. -- William O. Douglas.
- ~ The people who settled in New England came here for
religious freedom, but religious freedom to them meant freedom
only for their kind of religion...This attitude seems to be our
attitude in many situations today.-- Eleanor Roosevelt.
- ~ I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,
than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.-- Henry David
Thoreau.
- ~ Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if
you wish to keep them in good working order.-- John Quincy
Adams.
- ~ Alas! The love of a woman! It is known to be a lovely and
fearful thing.-- Lord Byron.
- ~ First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of
curiosity; no really self-respecting woman would take advantage
of it.-- George Bernard Shaw.
- ~ A foolish consistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
- ~ The great Spirit placed me and my people on this land poor
and naked. When the white man came, we gave them lands, and did
not wish to hurt them. But the white man drove us back and took
our lands. Then the Great Father made us many promises, but they
are not kept. He promised to give us large presents, and when
they came to us they were small...
Sioux Indian Chief Red Cloud.
- ~ Promises and Pye-Crusts...are made to be broken.-- Jonathan
Swift.
- ~ Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in
a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.-- Samuel
Johnson.
- ~ Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what else
is heaven for?-- Robert Browning.
- ~ The people who remained victorious were less like
conquerors than conquered.-- St. Augustine.
- ~ The most conservative persons I ever meet are college
undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.--
Samuel Ullman.
- ~ When children sound silly, you will always find that it is
in imitation of their elders.-- Ernest Dimnet.
- ~ Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a man's precious
pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses his
resentment.-- Dale Carnegie.
- ~ War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the
decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which
thinks nothing's worth a war, is worse.-- John Stuart Mill.
- ~ To hate a man because he was born in another country,
because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a
different view on this subject or that, is a great folly.--
Johann Amos Comenius.
- ~ He who praises everybody, praises nobody.-- Samuel
Johnson.
- ~ Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us
with respect to all nations, are our objects.-- Thomas
Jefferson.
- ~ The Lord prefers commonlooking people. That's why He made
so many of them.-- Abraham Lincoln.
- ~ I have looked upon the face of God, and She's black.--
Anon.
- ~ I have never let my schooling interfere with my
education.-- Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) American
author (1835-1910)
- ~ Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they
are, not as they ought to be. There are four kinds of
homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and
praiseworthy.
Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary (1842-1914)
- ~ Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of
talent. Genius will not ... the world is full of educated
derelicts. The slogan "Press On" has solved, and always will
solve the problems of the human race.-- Calvin Coolidge
(1872-1933)
- ~ If people think nature is their friend, then they sure
don't need an enemy.-- Kurt Vonnegut
- ~ No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.--
Alfred E Smith
- ~ In California, they don't throw their garbage away -
they make it into TV shows.-- Woody Allen
- ~ Words are loaded pistols.-- Jean-Paul Sartre
- ~ Men who dare to insult teachers and philosophers should
be loathed like sinners against the gods.-- Isocrates
- ~ One picture is worth ten thousand words-- - ascribed to
Chinese origin Frederick Barnard in Printer's Ink 12/8/21
- ~ If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a
typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible
sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters
they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance
of their doing so is decidedly more favorable than the chance of
the molecules returning to one half of the vessel.
Arthur S. Eddington The Nature of the Physical World, 1927
- ~ Francis Bacon, a man who rose to eminence by betraying
his friends, asserted, no doubt as one of the ripe lessons of
experience, that- knowledge is power-- Bertrand Russell from "A
History of Western Philosophy and Its...," in In Praise of
Idleness (1935)
- ~ "'For you- "My county right or wrong' is like saying,
"My mother drunk or sober.'"-- G. K. Chesterton
- ~ I have a Dream ...When we let freedom ring, when we let
it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and
every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of
God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles,
Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in
the words of the old Negro spiritual,
"Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at
last!"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ~ This quotation is from Inca Atahuallpa's answer to Fray
Wicente Valverde, taken from Spanish documents of the Indian
Archives in Seville. M.37.
"Be advised that I, being free, do not have to pay tribute to
anyone, nor do I believe there is a king greater than I. However,
I will have the pleasure to be the friend of your emperor, since
he should be a great prince to send his armies throughout the
world. But this Pope does not interest me; much less will I obey
him, I being in the kingdom of my father and our religion being
good and I and my subjects are happy. However, despite my being a
son of Huayna Capac I cannot discuss anything so wise and old.
The Christ that you speak of died, the Sun and Moon never die,
besides how do you know your god created the world?"
- ~ My husband said he needed more space. So I locked him
outside. -- Roseanne
- ~ Inside every older person is a younger person wondering
what the hell happened. -- Unknown
- ~ Children are unpredictable. You never know what
inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. -- Franklin P.
Jones
- ~ A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve
has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland
- ~ In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned
about life...It goes on. -- Robert Frost
- ~ I have enough money to last me the rest of my life,
unless I buy something. -- Jackie Mason
- ~ I get paid weekly. Very Weekly! -- Anonymous
- ~ I have everything I had 20 years ago, only it's all a
little bit lower. -- Gypsy Rose Lee
- ~ Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of
character. -- Oscar Levant
- ~ Every time I close the door on reality it comes in
through the windows. -- Jennifer Unlimited
- ~ Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
-- Mark Twain
- ~ Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
-- W. C. Fields
- ~ I have everything I had twenty years ago - except that
it is now all lower. -- Gypsy Rose Lee
- ~ The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong
about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to
verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard
Shaw
- ~ Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she
could not part with it. -- Rudyard Kipling
- ~ Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you
recognize a mistake when you make it again. --F. P. Jones
- ~ Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs
painting. --Billy Rose
- ~ I can resist everything except temptation. -- Oscar
Wilde
- ~ A rich man's joke is always funny. -- Proverb
- ~ I am not young enough to know everything. -- James M.
Barrie
- ~ I am an old man and have known a great many troubles,
but most of them never happened. -- Mark Twain
- ~ My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good
wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. --
Socrates
- ~ Advice is what we ask for when we already know the
answer but wish we didn't. -- Erica Jong
- ~ The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there
to appreciate it. -- Franklin P. Jones
- ~ Beautiful young people are acts of nature, but beautiful
old people are works of art. -- Unknown
- ~ "Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the
real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within
our daily allotment." -- Margaret B. Johnstone
- ~ I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several
days attack me at once. Jennifer Unlimited
- ~ Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for
an institution yet. -- Mae West
- ~ He who knows that enough is enough will always have
enough. -- Lao Tsu
- ~ You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age:
it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for
the first time how young the policemen look. -- Sir Seymour
Hicks
- ~ If you want to be happy, be. -- Henry David Thorreau
- ~ Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh
colors to a fast friend. -- John Lyle
- ~ The lovely thing about being forty is that you can
appreciate twenty-five-year-old men. -- Colleen McCullough
- ~ I don't date women my age. There aren't any. -- Milton
Berle
- ~ The remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty
years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has
never been found." -- CalvinTrillin
- ~ If the right side of the brain controls the left side of
the body...then only left-handed people are in their right minds.
-- Anonymous
- ~ Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the
field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of
the Gods. -- Albert Einstein
- ~ We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. --
Albert Einstein
- ~ I may be left-handed, but I'm always Right! --
Anonymous
- ~ Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? --
Phyllis Diller
- ~ A half truth, masquerading as a whole truth, is a
totally false truth. -- Anonymous
- ~ Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most ...
-- Anonymous
- ~ Old age is like everything else. To make a success of
it, you've got to start young. -- Fred Astaire
- ~ Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet
to come. -- Lucy Larcom
- ~ There are so many things about which some old man ought
to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would
know them as a matter of course. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
- ~ It is better to wear out than to rust out. -- Bishop
Richard Cumberland
- ~ It takes a long time to grow young. -- Pablo Picasso
- ~ Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs. --
Anonymous
- ~ The secret to eternal youth is arrested development. --
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
- ~ There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the
interval. -- George Santayana
- ~ When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got
to be twenty-one, I was astonished a how much he had learned in
seven years. -- Mark Twain
- ~ No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not
something to teach us, something more than we could learn by
ourselves, from a book. -- Cyril Connolly
- ~ Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh
colors to a fast friend. -- John Lyle
- ~ Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which
strengthens with the setting sun of life. -- Jean De La
Fontaine
- ~ A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest
kind of shade-tree I know. -- James Russell Lowell
- ~ We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are
the same. -- Jonathan Swift
- ~ To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder,
but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of
all. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
- ~ At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent,
untenable. -- Orson Welles
- ~ Old age is not for sissies. -- Malcolm Forbes
- ~ Health food may be good for the conscience, but Oreos
taste a hell of a lot better. -- Robert Redford
- ~ Don't take life so seriously; it's not permanent. --
Unknown
- ~ They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow
older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very
much. -- Malcolm Cowley
- ~ When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether
it happened or not. -- Mark Twain
- ~ You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't
possibly live long enough to make them all
yourself. -- Sam Levenson
- ~ I prefer Hostess fruit pies to pop-up toaster tarts
because they don't require so much cooking. -- Carrie Snow
- ~ The nice part of living in a small town is that when I
don't know what I'm doing, someone else does. -- Unknown
- ~ If at first you don't succeed, try again. then quit. No
use being a damn fool about it. -- w.c. Fields
- ~ One man's sunset is another man's dawn. -- Fievel
Mouskawitz
- ~ All I want is less to do, more time to do it, and higher
pay for not getting it done. -- Unknown
- ~ The trouble with life is, by the time you can read a
woman like a book, your library card has expired. -- Unknown
- ~ The aging process could be slowed down if it had to work
its way through congress. -- Unknown
- ~ As we grow older year by year, my husband always mourns;
the less and less we feel our oats and the more we feel our
corns. -- Unknown
- ~ Doctor to patient: I have good news and bad news. The
good news is that you are not a hypochondriac. -- Unknown
- ~ Lord, if you won't make me skinny, please make all my
friends fat!
- ~ The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of
Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark
Russell
- ~ It's had to be nostalgic when you can't remember
anything. -- Anonymous
- ~ In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. --
Charlie Brown
- ~ Things are going to get a lot worse before they get
worse. -- Lily Tomlin
- ~ There's too much blood in my caffeine system. --
Unknown
- ~ Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the
feeling passes. -- Unknown
- ~ God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of
things. Right now I am so far behind, I will live forever. --
Unknown
- ~ My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my
net income. -- Errol Flynn
- ~ It's been a rough day. I got up this morning, put on a
shirt, and a button fell off. I picked up my briefcase and the
handle came off. Now I'm afraid to go to the bathroom. -- Rodney
Dangerfield
- ~ The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets
the cheese. -- Unknown
- ~ It has been my experience that folks who have no vices
have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln
- ~ The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You
are always being asked to do things and yet you are not decrepit
enough to turn them down. -- T. S. Eliot
- ~ Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do
without the necessities. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
- ~ Don't confuse me with the facts. I've got a closed mind.
- Earl Landgrebe
- ~ When you come to a fork in the road, take it. -- Yogi
Berra
- ~ A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts
feel so good. -- Unknown
- ~ Why do people with closed minds always open their
mouths? -- Unknown
- ~ When you turn thirty, a whole new thing happens: you see
yourself acting like your parents. -- Blair Sabol
- ~ If the odds are a million to one against something
occurring, chances are 50-50 it will. -- Unknown
- ~ Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's
already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz
- ~ I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you
want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed
Bluestone
- ~ There is more to life than increasing its speed. --
Mahatma Gandhi
- ~ The wind of one door closing opens another. --
Unknown
- ~ Have you ever noticed how nothing is impossible for
those who don't have to do it? -- Unknown
- ~ If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat
people. -- Jim Eason
- ~ I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turned out
I was just really bored. -- Wayne's World
- ~ Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together
and your body starts falling apart. -- Caryn Leschen
- ~ Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be
silly. - Rose Franken
- ~ The second day of a diet is always easier than the
first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason
- ~ I'm on a seefood diet. I see food and I eat it. --
Unknown
- ~ If you must choose between two evils, pick the one
you've never tried before. -- Mae West
- ~ As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel
as young as I ever did. -- Unknown
- ~ Always look out for #1 and be careful not to step in #2.
-- Unknown
- ~ Integrity is one of several paths; it distinguishes
itself from the others because it is the right path and the only
one upon which you will never get lost. -- Unknown
- ~ The truth is the same from any angle. -- Unknown
- ~ The stories that you tell about your past shape your
future. -- Eric Ransdell
- ~ What is the use of lying when the truth, well
distributed, serves the same purpose. -- Unknown
- ~ Enough white lies lead up to manipulation. --
Unknown
- ~ Deceit feeding on ignorance weaves carelessly around the
truth, twisting its prey down a path to destined regret. --
Unknown
- ~ Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most
pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. --
Winston Churchill
- ~ But the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by
destinations. -- Gwynn Thomas (Welsh Writer)
- ~ Time is everyone's enemy. -- Unknown
- ~ If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it
get us out? -- Will Rogers
- ~ You've got to sing like you don't need the money
love like you've never been hurt
dance dance dance like nobody's watching
it's got to come from the heart if you want it to work. --
Susannah Clark
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