A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
~quote about Humorous by Fred Allen
Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know.
~quotes on Environment by Aunt Bee Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show
You mean like a book?
~sayings on Books by Justin Timberlake
I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.
~quotations on Curmudgeons by Fred Couples
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
~funny kid sayings by Barbara Bush
Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fallCount your life with smiles and not the tears that roll
~saying about kid by Author Unknown
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.
~quote about Baseball by Greg, age 8
The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.
~quotes on Jewelry by Author Unknown
The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.
~sayings on Poetry by Robert Frost
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money
~quotations on Arbor Day by Cree Indian Proverb
Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classified as cannibals.
~funny kid sayings by Finley Peter Dunne
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
~saying about kid by Mark Twain
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
~quote about Money by Henry Fielding
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
~quotes on Civilization by Abraham Joshua Heschel
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
~sayings on Government by Will Rogers
We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
~quotations on Carpe Diem by Jean Paul Sartre, Situations, 1939
The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.
~funny kid sayings by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum - My God, the floor's immaculate. Lie down, you hot bitch.
~saying about kid by Joan Rivers
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oathToday, we are a pious and exemplary communityThirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings consider
~quote about New Year by Mark Twain
It is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
~quotes on Attitude by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Crystallizing my feelings about the game, I find that squash is less frustrating than golf, less fickle than tennis. It is easier than badminton, cheaper than polo. It is better exercise than bowls, quicker than cricket, less boring than jogging, drier than swimming, safer than hang gliding.
~sayings on Sports by John Hopkins, Squash: A Joyful Game, 1980
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
~quotations on Daydreaming by W.H. Auden
Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too
~funny kid sayings by Lionel Kauffman
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
~saying about kid by Author Unknown
Writing is a struggle against silence.
~quote about Writing by Carlos Fuentes
Someday is not a day of the week.
~quotes on Procrastination by Author Unknown
Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.
~sayings on Alcohol by Author Unknown
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
~quotations on Friendship by Plautus
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
~funny kid sayings by W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
~saying about kid by E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.
~quote about Money by Jack Yelton
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
~quotes on Dance by ee cummings
Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.
~sayings on Humility by William Safire
I would like it if men had to partake in the same hormonal cycles to which we're subjected monthly. Maybe that's why men declare war - because they have a need to bleed on a regular basis.
~quotations on War by Brett Butler
People are largely what we make them. A smile or pleasant look turns a cranky grouch into a cheerful cherub. A frown or serious look repels even an optimist.
~funny kid sayings by
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
~saying about kid by Robertson Davies
I love being marriedIt's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life
~quote about Weddings by Rita Rudner
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby
~quotes on Women's Greetings by Natalie Wood
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