Showing posts with label Aesop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aesop. Show all posts

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Quote (#556)

"If one sticks too rigidly to
one's principles, one would
hardly see anybody."
- Agatha Christie

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do
not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean
that if you are happy you will be good."
- Bertrand Russell

"The smaller the mind the
greater the conceit."
- Aesop

"A person is never happy except at
the price of some ignorance."
- Anatole France

"I grew up with six brothers. That's
how I learned to dance - waiting
for the bathroom."
- Bob Hope

"If God had wanted us to vote, he
would have given us candidates."
- Jay Leno

Sunday, September 06, 2009

Quotaria

"It is not only fine feathers
that make fine birds."
- Aesop

"Music can change the world
because it can change people."
- Bono


"Delusions of grandeur make me
feel a lot better about myself."
- Jane Wagner

"Illegitimacy is something we should
talk about in terms of not having it."
- Dan Quayle

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false
statement. But the opposite of a profound truth
may well be another profound truth."
- Niels Bohr


"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults
by confessing our parents' shortcomings."
- Laurence J. Peter

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Quotaria

"Genius is more often found in a
cracked pot than in a whole one."
- E. B. White


"After all is said and done,
more is said than done."
- Aesop

"The object in life is not to be on the side of
the majority, but to be insane in such a useful
way that they can't commit you."
- Mark Edwards


"A healthy male adult bore consumes each
year one and a half times his own weight
in other people's patience."
- John Updike


"You are remembered for the rules you break."
- Douglas MacArthur


"We need a president who's fluent
in at least one language."
- Buck Henry

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Quotaria

"Reason has always existed, but
not always in a reasonable form."
- Karl Marx

"Lying increases the creative
faculties, expands the ego,
and lessens the frictions
of social contacts."
- Clare Booth Luce

"I'm living so far beyond my income that
we may almost be said to be living apart."
- e e cummings

"The United States is a nation of laws:
badly written and randomly enforced."
- Frank Zappa

"The case has, in some respects, been
not entirely devoid of interest."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint
the great ones to public office."
- Aesop