Quotes (#475)

I praise loudly;
I blame softly.
- Catherine II

What a day may bring,
a day may take away.
- Thomas Fuller

"A cynic is a man who,
when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin."
- H. L. Mencken

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Treat all disasters as if they
were trivialities but never treat
a triviality as if it were a disaster."
- Quentin Crisp

Little minds are tamed and
subdued by misfortune; but
great minds rise above them.
- Washington Irving

Quotes

"If at first you don't succeed,
failure may be your style."
- Quentin Crisp

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed,
and to have my senses put in order."
- John Burroughs

"All truth, in the long run, is
only common sense clarified."
- Thomas Huxley

"To be is to do."
- Immanuel Kant

"Only stupid questions create wealth."
- Gary Hamel

"The supernatural is the
natural not yet understood."
- Elbert Hubbard

Quotaria

Are you going to come quietly,
or do I have to use earplugs?
- Spike Milligan

To know all is not to forgive all.
It is to despise everything.
- Quentin Crisp

Where is human nature so
weak as in the bookstore?
- Henry Ward Beecher

"Every sentence I utter must be understood
not as an affirmation, but as a question."
- Niels Bohr

The trouble with weather forecasting is that
it's right too often for us to ignore it and
wrong too often for us to rely on it.
- Patrick Young

Never tell a story because it is true:
tell it because it is a good story.
- John Pentland Mahaffy

Quotes

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to
be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
- Peter Ustinov

The quickest way to a man's heart really is
through his stomach, because then you don't
have to chop through that pesky rib cage.
- J. Jacques

The trouble with jogging is that
the ice falls out of your glass.
- Martin Mull

Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark
overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
- George Carlin

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it
is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
- Quentin Crisp

The best car safety device is a
rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
- Dudley Moore

Quotaria

"If you believe everything
you read, better not read."
- Japanese Proverb

"Critics search for ages for the wrong
word, which, to give them credit, they
eventually find."
- Peter Ustinov

"What is youth except a man or a woman
before it is ready or fit to be seen?"
- Evelyn Waugh

"So much of what we call management consists
in making it difficult for people to work."
- Peter Drucker

"Never keep up with the Joneses.
Drag them down to your level."
- Quentin Crisp

"The whole world is in revolt.
Soon there will be only five
Kings left--the King of England,
the King of Spades, The King of
Clubs, the King of Hearts, and
the King of Diamonds."
- King Farouk of Egypt