Showing posts with label P.G. Wodehouse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label P.G. Wodehouse. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Quotes

"The least movement is of importance to all nature.
The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
- Blaise Pascal

"Nothing will work unless you do."
- Maya Angelou


"A wide screen just makes
a bad film twice as bad."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"I don't know the key to success, but the key
to failure is trying to please everybody."
- Bill Cosby

No one appreciates the very special genius
of your conversations as a dog does.
- Christopher Morley


Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints a
man should catch young and have done with, for when
it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
- PG Wodehouse

Friday, March 20, 2009

Quotes

"I have had a perfectly wonderful
evening, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx

"I believe a leaf of grass is no less
than the journey-work of the stars."
- Walt Whitman

"The manner of giving is
worth more than the gift."
- Pierre Corneille


"If not actually disgruntled, he
was far from being gruntled."
- P. G. Wodehouse

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra
and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
- Matt Groening

"People seem to enjoy things more when
they know a lot of other people have
been left out of the pleasure."
- Russell Baker

Monday, September 22, 2008

Quotes

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is
when you fall into an open sewer and die."
- Mel Brooks

"Always be nice to those younger than you, because
they are the ones who will be writing about you."
- Cyril Connolly

"If I have seen further it is by
standing on the shoulders of giants."
- Isaac Newton

"Many would be cowards if
they had courage enough."
- Thomas Fuller

"There is no such thing as an underestimate
of average intelligence."
- Henry Adams

"It is a good rule in life never to apologize.
The right sort of people do not want apologies,
and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them."
- P.G. Wodehouse