Quote (#569)

Unless you remove the weeds,
a good crop will be ruined.
- General Sadao Araki

The sword is our steel Bible!
- General Sadao Araki

"The four building blocks of the universe
are fire, water, gravel and vinyl."
Dave Barry

Conquer yourself rather than the world.
- Descartes

You never really lose until you quit trying.
- Mike Ditka

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant

Quote (#566)

"Some editors are failed writers,
but so are most writers."
- T. S. Eliot

"I think Superman should go on the Larry King
show and announce that he would come back to
life if people in all 50 states wanted him to."
- Dave Barry

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy
family is unhappy in its own way."
- Leo Tolstoy

"I'm a born-again atheist."
- Gore Vidal

"Don’t be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978), to a visiting diplomat

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and
I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling

Quote (#549)

"You know you're getting old when you stoop
to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else
you could do while you're down there."
- George Burns

"What I look forward to is continued
immaturity followed by death."
- Dave Barry

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's
the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov

"Youth is the gift of nature,
but age is a work of art."
- Stanislaw Lec

"It is good to be without vices, but it
is not good to be without temptations."
- Walter Bagehot

"A life of pleasure makes even the
strongest mind frivolous at last."
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Quotes

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a
very good plan; you should wear it inside,
where it functions best.
- Margaret Thatcher

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in getting up every time we do.
- Confucius

"America forms the longest and straightest
bone in the earth's skeleton."
- Ellsworth Huntington

"All the President is, is a glorified public
relations man who spends his time flattering,
kissing and kicking people to get them to do
what they are supposed to do anyway."
- Harry S Truman

"The only really good place to buy lumber is at
a store where the lumber has already been cut and
attached together in the form of furniture, finished,
and put inside boxes."
- Dave Barry

"You must not think me necessarily foolish
because I am facetious, nor will I consider
you necessarily wise because you are grave."
- Sydney Smith

Quotes

"Nature uses as little
as possible of anything."
- Johannes Kepler

When you are eight years old,
nothing is any of your business.
- Lenny Bruce

You can only be young once.
But you can always be immature.
- Dave Barry

"I wonder what it means when your grandson
is more crotchety than you are."
- Aaron McGruder

"If time flies when you're having fun,
it hits the afterburners when you don't
think you're having enough."
- Jef Mallett

I'm worried that the universe will soon
need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
- Edward Chilton