Showing posts with label William Feather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Feather. Show all posts

Thursday, November 05, 2009

Quote (#552)

Practice random beauty and
senseless acts of love.
- Anonymous

"Setting a good example for children
takes all the fun out of middle age."
- William Feather

"I have just returned from Boston. It is the only
sane thing to do if you find yourself up there."
- Fred Allen

Short change your education now and you may
be short of change the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

"Love dies only when growth stops."
- Pearl S. Buck

"A good film is when the price of
the dinner, the theatre admission
and the babysitter were worth it."
- Alfred Hitchcock

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Quotes (#485)

"You can find your way across this country using
burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
- Charles Kuralt

"No man is a failure
who is enjoying life."
- William Feather

Nothing great was ever
achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is at last sacred but
the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when you discover that someone else believes in
you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Quotes - PBF2B

"Early morning cheerfulness
can be extremely obnoxious."
- William Feather

"You are only as smart as your questions
and as dumb as your answers."
- Allen Wolff


The more laws and order are made
prominent, The more thieves and
robbers there will be.
- Lao-Tzu


"You wouldn't have won
if we'd beaten you."
- Yogi Berra


When we lose the right to be different,
we lose the privilege to be free.
- Charles Evans Hughes

"He was a bold man who
first ate an oyster."
- Jonathan Swift

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Quotaria

Cockroaches and socialites are
the only things that can stay
up all night and eat anything.
- Herb Caen

We confess our little faults to persuade
people that we have no large ones.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One reason I don't drink is that I want
to know when I am having a good time.
- Nancy Astor

Riley: These spells...these really work? I mean, can you really turn your enemies inside out? Or...learn to excrete gold coins?
Anya: That one's not so much fun.
Willow: They work, Riley, but they take concentration. Being attuned with the forces of the universe.
Xander: Right. You can't just go "librum incendere" and expect...[the page of Xander's book bursts into flame. Shocked, he slams the book closed, extinguishing the fire.]
Giles: Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer


"Then there was the man who drowned crossing
a stream with an average depth of six inches."
W.I.E. Gates

One of the indictments of civilizations is that
happiness and intelligence are so rarely found
in the same person.
- William Feather