Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.
~quote about Caffeine by The Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674
Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he/she is involved in tragic events.
~quotes on Humor by E.T. Cy Eberhart
All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt
~sayings on Love Quotes by Lucy Van Pelt
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
~quotations on Education by Heinrich Heine
Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.
~really funny saying by Author Unknown
Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.
~saying about really by P.G. Wodehouse, A Mixed Threesome, 1922
Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
~quote about Music by Ezra Pound
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
~quotes on Technology by Carl Sagan
The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.
~sayings on Property by Jean Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
~quotations on Conformity by Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
~really funny saying by Leon Edel
hEart has its own reason which eyes cannot see..
~saying about really by
If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings
~quote about April Fool's Day by Welsh Proverb
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
~quotes on Changes by Saint Augustine
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
~sayings on Fathers by John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
~quotations on Jobs by Confucius
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
~really funny saying by Lois Wyse
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
~saying about really by Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media
If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!
~quote about Hawww by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishnessIt's the men who are discriminated againstThey can't bear childrenAnd no one's likely to do anything about that
~quotes on Mothers Day by Golda Meir
Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.
~sayings on Philosophy by Socrates, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
~quotations on Golf by Ernest Hemingway
How do people make it through life without a sister?
~really funny saying by Sara Corpening
Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink.
~saying about really by Mark Twain, Note-Book, 1935
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
~quote about Conformity by Foe Ancis
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.
~quotes on Peace by William J. Clinton, 1997
Woman didn't get the short end of every stick. At least God gave us handheld massaging shower heads.
~sayings on Women by Rhann Morgan
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
~quotations on Baseball by Bill Veeck
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
~really funny saying by Calvin Trillin
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
~saying about really by Chateaubriand, Le Génie du Christianisme, 1802
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~quote about Imagination by Mark Twain
Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.
~quotes on Living by Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, 1889
Man alone, of all god’s creatures, can change himself for the better
~sayings on Happiness by
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
~quotations on Religion by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
~really funny saying by Mark Twain
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
~saying about really by Fyodor Dostoevski
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
~quote about Money by Errol Flynn
Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence.
~quotes on Marriage by Author Unknown
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