Quotes

"If government were a product,
selling it would be illegal."
- P. J. O'Rourke

"I'd never been in play long enough for
the flowers to die in the dressing room."
- Mercedes McCambridge

"I do not fear computers.
I fear the lack of them."
- Isaac Asimov

"Nature knows no pause in progress and development,
and attaches her curse on all inaction."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"All art is but imitation of nature."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"A hen is only an egg's way
of making another egg."
- Samuel Butler

Quotaria

"Almost all absurdity of conduct
arises from the imitation of those
whom we cannot resemble."
- Samuel Johnson

"Self-preservation is the
first law of nature."
- Samuel Butler

"The beginning is always today."
- Mary Wollstonecraft

"Charm is the quality in others that makes
us more satisfied with ourselves."
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"Instead of giving a politician
the keys to the city, it might
be better to change the locks."
- Doug Larson

"Shadows cannot see themselves
in the mirror of the sun."
- Evita Peron

Quotaria

Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity. They seem more
afraid of life than death.
- James F. Byrnes

There will always be a part, and always a very large
part of every community, that have no care but for
themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches
little further than impatience of immediate pain,
and eagerness for the nearest good.
- Samuel Johnson

All progress is based upon a universal innate
desire on the part of every organism to live
beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler

"To talk to a child, to fascinate him, is much more difficult
than to win an electoral victory. But it is also more rewarding."
- Colette, French author (1873-1954)

There are two kinds of light--the glow that
illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
- James Thurber

"Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts,
except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision."
- Blake Clark

Quotaria

"To die completely, a person must not only
forget but be forgotten, and he who is not
forgotten is not dead." - Samuel Butler

Never moon a werewolf.
- Mike Binder

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death is a low chemical trick played
on everybody except sequoia trees.
— J.J. Furnas

The strongest is never strong enough to
be always the master, unless he transforms
strength into right, and obedience into duty.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Money is like manure. You have to
spread it around or it smells.
- Jean Paul Getty

Quotes

"If you get to thinkin' you're a person
of some influence, try orderin' somebody
else's dog around."
- Cowboy wisdom

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and
to turn around three times before lying down"
- Robert Benchley

To be amused by what you read--that is
the great spring of happy quotations.
- CE Montague

"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a
fool of yourself with him and not only will he not
scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
- Samuel Butler

"Here, gentlemen, a dog teaches
us a lesson in humanity."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement
of our race is indiscriminate charity.
- Andrew Carnegie

Quotes

"The meek shall inherit the Earth,
but not its mineral rights."
- J. Paul Getty

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms
with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
- Samuel Butler

"I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I
DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER."
- Groucho Marx

"This President is going to
lead us out of this recovery."
- Dan Quayle

"Why isn't there a special name
for the tops of your feet?"
- Lily Tomlin

"Life is a succession of moments,
to live each one is to succeed."
- Corita Kent

Quotes

"'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you
that I'm not, be the next victim?'/ 'Well, that would be a start.'"
- Cary Grant

Any fool can paint a picture, but it
takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
- Samuel Butler

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case,
sometimes he will even tell the truth.
- Patrick Murray

"The real art of conversation is not only to say
the right thing at the right place but to leave
unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
- Dorothy Nevill

"An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes
he decides correctly, but he always decides."
- John H. Pattersson

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite
senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)