Some Interesting Quotes

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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