Quotes, April 2006
01. Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.
- Horace
02. We’re more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don’t know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
03. Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.
- William Somerset Maugham
04. One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool.
- Edgar Howe
05. The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
- Dave Barry
06. No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
07. Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
- Sam Ewing
08. The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
- Ambrose Bierce
09. The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe.
- Benito Mussolini
10. I never trust a man unless I’ve got his pecker in my pocket.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
11. Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain
12. Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
- Edward de Bono
13. Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- Aldous Huxley
14. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
- Margaret Thatcher
15. If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
16. Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
- Ambrose Bierce
17. No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Samuel Johnson
18. A rising tide lifts all boats.
- John F. Kennedy
19. Varuim et mutabile semper femina.
[Woman is always fickle and changing.]
- Virgil
20. The pen is the tongue of the mind.
- Miguel de Cervantes
21. A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
- Jean Kerr
22. There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
- Joseph Addison
23. Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
- Goethe
24. People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
- Cullen Hightower
25. There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
- Michel De Montaigne
26. Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.
- Erna Bombeck
27. When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw
28. Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
- G. K. Chesterton
29. It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.
- Richard Willard Armour
30. A man is accepted into church for what he believes - and turned out for what he knows.
- Mark Twain
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