The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
~quote about Humor by Peter De Vries
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
~quotes on Mind by Cicero
I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
~sayings on Sports by Bob Hope
History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.
~quotations on History by Konrad Adenauer
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
~romantic love quotes from movie by Walter Gropius
Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are as strange as hell.
~saying about romantic from movie by Robin Morgan
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
~quote about Death by Francis Bacon, Of Death
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
~quotes on Body by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
~sayings on Living by Edna Ferber
An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
~quotations on Age by Agatha Christie, news summaries, 9 March 1954
To be too conscious is an illness - a real thoroughgoing illness.
~romantic love quotes from movie by Fyodor Dostoevski
Never strike your wife - even with a flower.
~saying about romantic from movie by Hindu Proverb
My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.
~quote about Libraries by Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
~quotes on Quotations by Hesketh Pearson
Turn your wounds into wisdom
~sayings on Adversity by Oprah Winfrey
God's will is not an itinerary, but an attitude.
~quotations on God by Andrew Dhuse
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
~romantic love quotes from movie by Franklin D. Roosevelt
There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.
~saying about romantic from movie by Ernie Kovacs
Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering.
~quote about Adversity by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right
~quotes on Election Day by H.L. Mencken, 1956
The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present.
~sayings on History by David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country
It ain't nothin' till I call it.
~quotations on Baseball by Bill Klem, umpire
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks
~romantic love quotes from movie by Natalie Clifford Barney
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
~saying about romantic from movie by Mary C. Crowley
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
~quote about Living by André Gide, Nourritures Terrestres
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
~quotes on Learning by Mohammed
If cats could talk, they wouldn't.
~sayings on Cats by Nan Porter
Friends are born, not made
~quotations on Friends by Henry Adams
The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.
~romantic love quotes from movie by William Ralph
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
~saying about romantic from movie by G.M. Trevelyan
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
~quote about American football by Erma Bombeck
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
~quotes on Conformity by Michael Korda
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
~sayings on Light by Ben Sweetland
No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.
~quotations on Thinking by Henry Van Dyke
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
~romantic love quotes from movie by Ansel Adams
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
~saying about romantic from movie by Michael Fox, Sierra, November-December 1990
Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be.
~quote about History by P.J. O'Rourke
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
~quotes on Art by Jean Paul Richter
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