No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
~quote about College by J. Robert Oppenheimer
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
~quotes on Conformity by Wilson Mizner
Truth is not determined by majority vote
~sayings on Election Day by Doug Gwyn
Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year
~quotations on Christmas by P.J. O'Rourke
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
~short funny sayings by Arnold Glasow
Few great men could pass Personnel.
~saying about short by Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society, 1956
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
~quote about Living by Ralph Waldo Emerson
In union there is strength.
~quotes on Brotherhood Unity by Aesop
Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.
~sayings on Smoking by Florence King
Americans are broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there is something wrong with him.
~quotations on Driving by Art Buchwald, How Un-American Can You Get?, Have I Ever Lied to You?, 1966
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
~short funny sayings by Mark Twain
If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.
~saying about short by Paul Dirac
It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling.
~quote about Golf by Mark Twain
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
~quotes on Age by Victor Hugo
Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.
~sayings on Science by Stephen Jay Gould
Never judge a day by its weather. Sunshine is uplifting; rain, nourishing; wind, exhilarating, snow, cleansing; hail, stimulating. Any weather is better than none.
~quotations on Living by
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
~short funny sayings by Oscar Wilde
Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.
~saying about short by Lou Erickson
When freedom from want and freedom from fear are achieved, man's remains will be in rigor mortis.
~quote about Humankind by Martin H. Fischer
We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
~quotes on Insects by Gerald Brenan
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses
~sayings on Death by Virginia Woolf
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
~quotations on Books Reading by Ross MacDonald
Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness
~short funny sayings by Ellie Katz
Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once
~saying about short by Unknown
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.
~quote about Quotations by John Jay Chapman
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
~quotes on Death by Charles Sanders Peirce
A goodbye isn't painful unless you're never going to say hello again
~sayings on Goodbye by Author Unknown
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
~quotations on Gossip by Frank A. Clark
Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
~short funny sayings by Robert Montgomery
Don't waste time learning the tricks of the trade. Instead, learn the trade.
~saying about short by Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
~quote about Society by Henry David Thoreau
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
~quotes on Friendship by Frances Ward Weller
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference
~sayings on Celebrity by Tom Brokaw
God and other artists are always a little obscure.
~quotations on Art by Oscar Wilde
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
~short funny sayings by George Santayana, The Life of Reason
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
~saying about short by Nicholas Murray Butler
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
~quote about Fathers by Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.
~quotes on Parenting by John J. Plomp
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