There is no gravity. The earth sucks.
~quote about Science by Graffito
When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute.
~quotes on Men by Author Unknown
It's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I don't know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind. I wish I believed, as J. B. Priestley did, that consciousness continues after disembodiment or death, not forever, but for a long while. Three score years and ten is such a stingy ration of time, when there is so much time around. Perhaps that's why some of us are insomniacs; night is so precious that it would be pusillanimous to sleep all through it! A bad night is not always a bad thing.
~sayings on Sleep by Brian W. Aldiss
Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both.
~quotations on Jealousy by Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.
~funny military quote by Jean Rhys
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
~saying about military by Lynn Hall
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses providing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man as twice its natural size.
~quote about Men by Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929
This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.
~quotes on History by Samuel Johnson
Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.
~sayings on Confidence by Richard Kline
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
~quotations on Justice by Lord Halifax
Brandy, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.
~funny military quote by Ambrose Bierce
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about and.
~saying about military by Arthur Stanley Eddington
Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.
~quote about Politics by Walter Lippmann
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
~quotes on Weather by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain
~sayings on Adversity by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.
~quotations on Self by Attributed to Richard M. Nixon
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
~funny military quote by Thomas Jefferson
Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.
~saying about military by Dwight D. Eisenhower, address, Columbia University, 31 May 1954
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
~quote about God by Mary C. Crowley
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
~quotes on Happiness by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent and the serpent didn't have a leg to stand on.
~sayings on Religion by Unknown
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
~quotations on Sleep by Arthur Schopenhauer
There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
~funny military quote by Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens.
~saying about military by Edgar A. Suter
A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.
~quote about Soul by Plato
Always be a poet, even in prose.
~quotes on Poetry by Charles Baudelaire, My Heart Laid Bare, Intimate Journals, 1864
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
~sayings on Sex by Gore Vidal
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
~quotations on Truth by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
~funny military quote by Charles Caleb Colton
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
~saying about military by Buddha
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
~quote about Smiles by Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997
I'm in favor of it as long as it's multiple choice.
~quotes on Drugs by Kurt Rambis, on drug testing
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools
~sayings on April Fool's Day by Douglas Adams
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
~quotations on Happiness by Iris Murdoch
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!
~funny military quote by Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
~saying about military by Sigmund Freud
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net.
~quote about Age by Franklin Adams
I do not believe in God, for that implies an effort of the will - I see God everywhere!
~quotes on God by Jean Favre
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