Posting Of Quotes
In my probably-not-so-humble opinion, here's some fun and neat quotes. They're just some of my personal favorites. Enjoy, if you will.
All anybody expects of adolescents is that they act like adults and are satisfied to be treated like children.
A creative advertisement fort a discount store announced a new laundry item called solar-powered clothes dryer. It turned out to be a clothesline.
Some things have to be put off time after time before they finally slip your mind.
Credit: the system that allows you to live the way you would if you could.
It has never been determined whether the early bird enjoys the worm as much as the late bird enjoys the extra sleep.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
You know it’s not a good wax museum when there are wicks coming out of people’s heads.
Noted psychoanalyst Freud said that the first person that hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
To my mind, one of the greatest pleasures is to perform a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
They now have a pill that is half aspirin and half glue. It’s for people who get splitting headaches.
The fellow who coined the phrase, “What goes up must come down,” must have lived before they invented taxes and postal rates.
Fear might bring a man farther than courage, but not in the same direction.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
The single most useful of all social graces is the ability to yawn with your mouth shut.
I thought I had wavy hair until I shaved. Instead, I found I have straight hair and a very wavy head.
Can you remember the days when the most popular piece of software was a pillow?
Computers are good enough in their own way, but they are no substitute for life.
There’s at least one thing to be said for ignorance – it sure causes a lot of interesting arguments.
It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you are going away.
Music is simply wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.
They say it’s better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable. But couldn’t something be worked out such as being moderately wealthy and just a little moody?
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.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
Very clever people sometimes let their brains go to their head.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
A man can never be in worse company that when he flies into a rage and is beside himself.
In a conversation, always keep in mind that you’re more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.
Politician: someone who can borrow twenty dollars, pay you back ten, and declare you’re even because you both lost ten.
If your mind isn’t really open, you really should keep your mouth shut, too.
A wise husband buys his wife fine china so she won’t trust him to wash the dishes.
And here's two of the best for last.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Feel free to leave a comment or a quote!
All anybody expects of adolescents is that they act like adults and are satisfied to be treated like children.
A creative advertisement fort a discount store announced a new laundry item called solar-powered clothes dryer. It turned out to be a clothesline.
Some things have to be put off time after time before they finally slip your mind.
Credit: the system that allows you to live the way you would if you could.
It has never been determined whether the early bird enjoys the worm as much as the late bird enjoys the extra sleep.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
You know it’s not a good wax museum when there are wicks coming out of people’s heads.
Noted psychoanalyst Freud said that the first person that hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
To my mind, one of the greatest pleasures is to perform a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
They now have a pill that is half aspirin and half glue. It’s for people who get splitting headaches.
The fellow who coined the phrase, “What goes up must come down,” must have lived before they invented taxes and postal rates.
Fear might bring a man farther than courage, but not in the same direction.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
The single most useful of all social graces is the ability to yawn with your mouth shut.
I thought I had wavy hair until I shaved. Instead, I found I have straight hair and a very wavy head.
Can you remember the days when the most popular piece of software was a pillow?
Computers are good enough in their own way, but they are no substitute for life.
There’s at least one thing to be said for ignorance – it sure causes a lot of interesting arguments.
It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you are going away.
Music is simply wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.
They say it’s better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable. But couldn’t something be worked out such as being moderately wealthy and just a little moody?
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.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
Very clever people sometimes let their brains go to their head.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
A man can never be in worse company that when he flies into a rage and is beside himself.
In a conversation, always keep in mind that you’re more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.
Politician: someone who can borrow twenty dollars, pay you back ten, and declare you’re even because you both lost ten.
If your mind isn’t really open, you really should keep your mouth shut, too.
A wise husband buys his wife fine china so she won’t trust him to wash the dishes.
And here's two of the best for last.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Feel free to leave a comment or a quote!
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