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Expressing anger is a form of public littering. ~ Willard Gaylin Every man I meet is in some way my superior. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. For my part, it was Greek to me. ~ William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar Laughter the Best Medicine Quote Me! Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. ~ Fred Allen (1894-1956) Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~ Will Rogers (1879-1935) Half this game is ninety percent mental. ~ Yogi Berra Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. ~ Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ~ Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire. ~ William Butler Yeats Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish. ~ Mark Twain (1835-1910) Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ~ George Burns Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~ George F. Will , journalist, political commentator, 1994 Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this. ~ Peter Sellers |
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God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. Imamu Amiri Baraka God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. Alfred Jarry God runs electromagnetic by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. William Bragg, Sir Golf is a good walk spoiled. Mark Twain (1835-1910) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato (427-347 B.C.) For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. Mark Twain (1835-1910) Give me a lever long enough, and I shall move the world. Archimedes Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. Saint Augustine (354-430) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality. Anonymous Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) , from An Autobiography, 1932. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
Charlie Parker
Don't try to tell the customer what he wants. If you want to be smart, be smart in the shower. Then get out, go to work and serve the customer!
Gene Buckley , President, Sikorsky Aircraft
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Anonymous
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
Carl Zwanzig
Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.
Stephen King
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes (1596-1650) - Discours de la Methode
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
Samuel Johnson
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
Every person takes the limits for their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
Jonathan Swift
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Jean de La Fontaine
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
George Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Caleb Colton
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W. Somerset Maugham
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
Arnold H. Glasow
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Extra-marital sex is as overrated as pre-marital sex. And marital sex, come to think of it.
Simon Gray
Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
Goya
Farewell, fair cruelty.
William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night
Fast, Cheap, Good: Choose any two.
Anonymous
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King
Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.
Charles H. Grosvenor
First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
Michael Caine
Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
Simon Newcomb , 1902, eighteen months before Kitty Hawk
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)