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

Quote (#495)

"Life is half spent before
we know what it is."
- George Herbert

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep
streets even as Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven played
music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets
so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to
say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"People who have no weaknesses are terrible;
there is no way of taking advantage of them."
- Anatole France

"I don't have a photograph, but you can have
my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks."
- Groucho Marx

Every subject at some phase of its development
should possess, what is for the individual
concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.
- John Dewey

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure
an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
- John Dewey

Quotes

"those who do not know how to weep with their
whole heart dont know how to laugh either."
~ Golda Meir

"The problem with people who have no vices is
that generally you can be pretty sure they're
going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
- Elizabeth Taylor

"When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an
operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays."
- Henny Youngman

"It is human nature to think wisely
and act in an absurd fashion."
- Anatole France

"Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this,
that you are dreadfully like other people."
- James Russell Lowell

"The great aim of education is
not knowledge but action."
- Herbert Spencer

Quotes

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves
as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

The more things change, the
more they remain... insane.
- Michael Fry and T. Lewis

The only normal people are the
ones you don't know very well.
- Joe Ancts

For the better part of my childhood, my professional
aspirations were simple--I wanted to be an intergalactic
princess.
- Janet Evanovich, "Seven Up"

‘I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But
the questions are certainly worth thinking about.’
- Arthur C. Clarke

The average man, who does not know what to do with
his life, wants another one which will last forever.
- Anatole France

Quotes

"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is
an example of the eternal seductiveness of life."
- Jean Giraudoux

"Hearing nuns' confessions is like
being stoned to death with popcorn."
- Fulton J. Sheen

"In the United States there is more space
where nobody is than where anybody is. That
is what makes America what it is."
- Gertrude Stein

"A bore is a man who, when you
ask him how he is, tells you."
- Bert Leston Taylor

"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation
from one kind of labor by taking up another."
- Anatole France

"Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they
appear to be busy when they are writing and
because the memos, once written, immediately
become proof that they were busy."
- Charles Peters