Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

 

--Ann Landers, author 

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

 

--Lady Astor 

The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders.

 

--Linda Festa 

There is a new billboard outside Times Square. It keeps an up-to-the-minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move.

 

--David Letterman 

Bad artists always admire each others' work.

 

--Oscar Wilde 

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

 

--Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

 

--Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982) 

"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."

 

--Lucille S. Harper 

"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."

 

--Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980) 

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

 

--Thomas Edison 

You're not too bright. I like that in a man.

 

--Kathleen Turner to William Hurt in Body Heat, 1981 

I don't want the cheese, I just want out of the trap.

 

--Spanish Proverb 

Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.

 

--Bill Bernbach 

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

 

--David Ogilvy 

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

 

--Hippocrates 

Who can refute a sneer?

 

--William Paley 

One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear and bid adieu; Though we sever, my fond heart Till we meet shall pant for you.

 

--Robert Dodsley 

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.

 

--Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

 

--Lord Byron 

There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

 

--Duke of Wellington 

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

 

--Dave Barry 

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

 

--Doug Gwyn 

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

 

--Thomas Carruthers 

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.

 

--Robert C. Gallagher 

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?.

 

--Scott Adams 

They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.

 

--Ovid 

The wise man wouldn't walk when he can take the subway.

 

--Anonymous 

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

 

--Euripides 

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

 

--Dr. John Donne 

The remedy is worse than the disease.

 

--Francis Bacon 

I think the monkeys at the zoo should have to wear sunglasses so they can't hypnotize you.

 

--Jack Handey 

Who can refute a sneer?

 

--William Paley 

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.

 

--Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

 

--Lord Byron 

There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

 

--Duke of Wellington 

Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire,-- conscience.

 

--George Washington 

Thus hand in hand through life we 'll go; Its checker'd paths of joy and woe With cautious steps we 'll tread.

 

--Nathaniel Cotton 

Libertas et natale solum: fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.

 

--Jonathan Swift 

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

 

--Dr. John Donne 

The remedy is worse than the disease.

 

--Francis Bacon 

I think the monkeys at the zoo should have to wear sunglasses so they can't hypnotize you.

 

--Jack Handey 

A little more than kin, and less than kind.

 

--William Shakespeare 

If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we build to that.

 

-- Jack Handy 

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."

 

-- Mario Andretti 

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

 

-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) 

I'm a scientist; nothing shocks me.

 

-- Indiana Jones 

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

 

-- Cleveland Amory 

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

 

-- Bill Vaughan 

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

 

-- Danny Kaye 

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

 

-- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 

Health food makes me sick.

 

-- Calvin Trillin 

"The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!"

 

-- Homer Simpson 

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

 

-- Woody Allen 

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

 

-- Anatole France 

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

 

-- Kingsley Amis 

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."

 

-- Henry Ford (1863-1947) 

Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.

 

-- Unknown 

The ark was built by amateurs, and the Titanic by the experts. Don't wait for the experts.

 

-- Murray Cohen 

Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.

 

-- Col. Harland Sanders 

If you have a skeleton in your closet, take it out and dance with it.

 

-- Carolyn Mac Kenzie 

There is no such thing as time that doesn't count.

 

-- Charles Stanley 

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

 

-- Louis L'amour 

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.

 

-- Dennis Fakes 

If you want an accounting of your worth, count on your friends.

 

-- Merry Browne 

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small small stones.

 

-- Chinese Proverb 

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man--and I will show you a failure.

 

-- Thomas Edison 

The things we fear most in organizations--fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances--are the primary sources of creativity.

 

-- Margaret J. Wheatley 

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

 

-- Dorothy Nevill 

I am becoming convinced that anybody who gives anybody else any advice ought to spend forty days in the desert both before and after.

 

-- Flannery O'connor 

Action is the only answer to conquer fear.

 

-- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale 

Knowing is not enough; we must act. Willing is not enough; we must do.

 

-- Goethe 

"Mine! Mine! It's all mine!"

 

-- D. Duck 

"The only sure thing about luck is that it will change."

 

-- Wilson Mizner 

"....I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

 

-- Thomas Edison 

"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."

 

-- Johann Sebastian Bach 

"Never pray for justice, because you might get some."

 

-- Margaret Atwood 

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

 

-- Edgar Allan Poe 

"Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content."

 

-- Louis L'Amour 

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."

 

-- Anna Freud 

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."

 

-- Decouvertes 

"We will either find a way or make one."

 

-- Hannibal 

"Education is the best provision for old age."

 

-- Aristotle 

"All things change, nothing perishes."

 

-- Ovid 

To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

 

--Carl Sagan 

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

 

--Dave Barry 

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

 

--Niels Bohr 

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

 

--Doug Gwyn 

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

 

--Thomas Carruthers 

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.

 

--Robert C. Gallagher 

Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

 

--African Proverb 

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?.

 

--Scott Adams 

It is possible for your mind to be so open that your brain falls out.

 

--Unknown 

They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.

 

--Ovid 

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

 

--Euripides 

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

 

--Hippocrates 

Happiness is a warm kitten.

 

--Anonymous 

Who can refute a sneer?

 

--William Paley 

One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear and bid adieu; Though we sever, my fond heart Till we meet shall pant for you.

 

--Robert Dodsley 

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.

 

--Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

 

--Lord Byron 

There is nothing so powerful as truth,--and often nothing so strange.

 

--Daniel Webster 

There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

 

--Duke of Wellington 

Thus hand in hand through life we 'll go; Its checker'd paths of joy and woe With cautious steps we 'll tread.

 

--Nathaniel Cotton 

Libertas et natale solum: fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.

 

--Jonathan Swift 

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

 

--Dr. John Donne 

The remedy is worse than the disease.

 

--Francis Bacon 

I think the monkeys at the zoo should have to wear sunglasses so they can't hypnotize you.

 

--Jack Handey 

A little more than kin, and less than kind.

 

--William Shakespeare 

"If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there."

 

-- The Cowboy's Guide to Life 

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact."

 

-- George Eliot 

If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we build to that.

 

-- Jack Handy 

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."

 

-- Mario Andretti 

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

 

-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) 

I'm a scientist; nothing shocks me.

 

-- Indiana Jones 

If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job.

 

-- Woody Allen 

"If you torture data long enough, it will tell you anything you want !"

 

-- unknown 

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

 

-- Cleveland Amory 

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

 

-- Bill Vaughan 

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

 

-- Peter De Vries 

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

 

-- Danny Kaye 

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

 

-- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 

Health food makes me sick.

 

-- Calvin Trillin 

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

 

-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 

"The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!"

 

-- Homer Simpson 

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

 

-- Woody Allen 

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it; if you are sick, you shouldn't take it.

 

-- Henry Ford 

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

 

-- Anatole France 

"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."

 

-- Fred Allen (1894-1956) 

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."

 

-- Henry Ford (1863-1947) 

Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.

 

-- Unknown 

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

 

-- Jack Handey 

"If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there."

 

-- The Cowboy's Guide to Life 

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact."

 

-- George Eliot 

The ark was built by amateurs, and the Titanic by the experts. Don't wait for the experts.

 

-- Murray Cohen 

Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.

 

-- Col. Harland Sanders 

If you have a skeleton in your closet, take it out and dance with it.

 

-- Carolyn Mac Kenzie 

There is no such thing as time that doesn't count.

 

-- Charles Stanley 

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

 

-- Louis L'amour 

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.

 

-- Dennis Fakes 

If you want an accounting of your worth, count on your friends.

 

-- Merry Browne 

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small small stones.

 

-- Chinese Proverb 

Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth you'd probably be able to get a lot of free games.

 

-- Jack Handy 

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man--and I will show you a failure.

 

-- Thomas Edison 

The things we fear most in organizations--fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances--are the primary sources of creativity.

 

-- Margaret J. Wheatley 

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

 

-- Dorothy Nevill 

I am becoming convinced that anybody who gives anybody else any advice ought to spend forty days in the desert both before and after.

 

-- Flannery O'connor 

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

 

-- Cicero 

Action is the only answer to conquer fear.

 

-- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale 

Knowing is not enough; we must act. Willing is not enough; we must do.

 

-- Goethe 

"Mine! Mine! It's all mine!"

 

-- D. Duck 

"If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it."

 

-- Stanley Garn 

"The only sure thing about luck is that it will change."

 

-- Wilson Mizner 

"It takes a lot of time being a genius -- you have to sit around so much doing nothing."

 

-- Gertrude Stein 

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

 

-- Aldous Huxley 

"....I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

 

-- Thomas Edison 

"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."

 

-- Johann Sebastian Bach 

"Never pray for justice, because you might get some."

 

-- Margaret Atwood 

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

 

-- Edgar Allan Poe 

"Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content."

 

-- Louis L'Amour 

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."

 

-- Anna Freud 

"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."

 

-- Lionel Trilling. 

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."

 

-- Decouvertes 

"We will either find a way or make one."

 

-- Hannibal 

"Education is the best provision for old age."

 

-- Aristotle 

"All things change, nothing perishes."

 

-- Ovid 

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."

 

-- Ralph W. Emerson 

"People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."

 

-- Edmund Burke 

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

 

-- Neil Peart 

"People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise."

 

-- Somerset Maughm 

"The future ain't what it used to be."

 

-- Yogi Berra 

"Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars."

 

-- Casey Kasem 

"Fate keeps on happening."

 

-- Anita Loos 

"I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus GOO GOO GOO JOOB."

 

-- John Lennnon 

"The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep."

 

-- Propertius 

"The half is greater than the whole."

 

-- Hesiod 

"The buck stops here."

 

-- Truman 

"Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake."

 

-- Sting 

"Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can."

 

-- Owen Meredith 

 
 


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