Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
~quote about Quotations by Author Unknown
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
~quotes on Philosophical by Leo Rosten
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
~sayings on Food by James Beard
Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.
~quotations on American football by Luke Salisbury
Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.
~poem and quotes about love and friendship by Thomas A. Bailey
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
~saying about poem friendship by Laurence Olivier
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
~quote about Politics by Clare Boothe Luce
Repetition is the mother of all skill.
~quotes on Attitude by Anthony Robbins
An age is called dark, not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it.
~sayings on Light by James Michener
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.
~quotations on Carpe Diem by John Burroughs
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder
~poem and quotes about love and friendship by Ralph W. Sockman
Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
~saying about poem friendship by Robert Benchley
Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
~quote about Alcohol by P.J. O'Rourke
Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha.
~quotes on Baseball by The Villains in Blue, Time magazine, 25 August 1961
Don't take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here.
~sayings on Medical by Author Unknown
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
~quotations on Appearance by Daniel Webster
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
~poem and quotes about love and friendship by Christopher Morley
After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.
~saying about poem friendship by George Macauley Trevelyan
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded
~quote about April Fool's Day by George Orwell
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.
~quotes on Society by Will Rogers
It's not enough to have a dream, Unless you're willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right, Unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth, Unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love, Unless you care enough to give it Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them
~sayings on Dreams by Samuel Smiles
There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
~quotations on American football by Alfred Hitchcock
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion
~poem and quotes about love and friendship by Martha Graham
I think the world is run by C students.
~saying about poem friendship by Al McGuire
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.
~quote about Teachers by Author Unknown
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.
~quotes on Decisions by Herman Broch
I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.
~sayings on Environment by Sir George Porter, quoted in The Observer, 26 August 1973
Adversity introduces a man to himself
~quotations on Adversity by Author Unknown
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
~poem and quotes about love and friendship by Edward Steichen
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
~saying about poem friendship by George Bernard Shaw
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
~quote about Sports by Blaise Pascal
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.
~quotes on Women by Compton Mackenzie, Literature in My Time, 1933
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
~sayings on Honesty by Jerome K. Jerome
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
~quotations on Passion by Amiel, Journal, 17 December 1856
The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning - and the younger generation doesn't think much of it either.
~poem and quotes about love and friendship by John J. Welsh
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
~saying about poem friendship by Salvador Dali
If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.
~quote about Human Rights by Howard Mumford Jones
A King, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A Father can do neither
~quotes on Competence by Marlene Dietrich
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