It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
~quote about Famous Saying by Mark Twain
Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
~quotes on Wise Words by Chinese Proverb
A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.
~sayings on Friendship by Ben Franklin
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
~quotations on Politics by Stewart Udall
There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.
~short funny quote by B. Quilliam
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
~saying about short by Maureen Murphy
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
~quote about Labor by Gerald Brenan, Thoughts in a Dry Season
Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.
~quotes on Women by George du Maurier
The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings.
~sayings on Religion by Garrett Hardin
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
~quotations on Leadership by Albert Schweitzer
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better
~short funny quote by William Shakespeare
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
~saying about short by Alfred Adler
Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
~quote about Logic by Benjamin Jowett
The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good timeBut man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end
~quotes on Party Invitations by Don Marquis
No one ever went broke under-estimating the taste of the American public.
~sayings on Funny Saying by Mark Twain
It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.
~quotations on Society by Malcolm Potts, MD
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
~short funny quote by William Faulkner
Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up.
~saying about short by Argosy
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
~quote about Children by Margaret Atwood
Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.
~quotes on Parenting by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
~sayings on Driving by Garrett Hardin, The Ecologist, February 1974
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.
~quotations on Debt by American Proverb
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
~short funny quote by George Seaton
A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
~saying about short by Henry Ward Beecher
Retire from work, but not from life
~quote about Retirement by M.K. Soni
I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.
~quotes on Beauty by Karl Lagerfeld
A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.
~sayings on Marriage by African Proverb
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.
~quotations on History by Paul Valéry, Regards sur le Monde Actuel
Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere!
~short funny quote by Author unknown, as seen on a T-shirt
Because I took a moment to speak
And you took a second to smile
A tiny part of me will leave with you
And a little bit of you will stay.
~saying about short by Jevan
May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.
~quote about Fishing by Irish Blessing
Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.
~quotes on Dieting by Author Unknown
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
~sayings on Life by W. Somerset Maugham
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere
~quotations on Celebrity by Tim McGraw
Bad is never good until worse happens
~short funny quote by Danish Proverb
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
~saying about short by John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
~quote about Hope by Tertullian
Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
~quotes on Travel by Seneca
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