There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus.
~quote about Fathers by Author Unknown
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
~quotes on Hypocrisy by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
~sayings on Adversity by Socrates
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
~quotations on History by Dick Gregory
When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong.
~top gun movie quotes by Ani Difranco
Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.
~saying about top gun movie by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
~quote about Action by John Locke
Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale.
~quotes on Fathers by Victoria Secunda, Women and Their Fathers, 1992
Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.
~sayings on Men by Attributed to both Marion Smith and Nicole Hollander
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
~quotations on Justice by Edmund Burke
Motherhood is like Albania - you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there
~top gun movie quotes by Marni Jackson
Bad habits are easy to acquire but hard live with.
~saying about top gun movie by
I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
~quote about God by Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
~quotes on Wise Words by Theodore Roosevelt
We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.
~sayings on Freedom by Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914
The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.
~quotations on Walking by Frederick L. Knowles
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
~top gun movie quotes by Gaston Bachelard
A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.
~saying about top gun movie by William C. Feather
The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
~quote about Spring by E.B. White, Hot Weather, One Man's Meat, 1944
A lie is coward’s way for solving a problem or evading a difficulty. Never deceive. When he finds you out, he’ll harm you more than your deceit helped. Nature puts curse on all wrong-doing.
~quotes on Self Discipline by
There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries
~sayings on Christmas by W.J. Cameron
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.
~quotations on Conformity by Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
~top gun movie quotes by David Letterman
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.
~saying about top gun movie by Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
~quote about Helping by Benjamin Disraeli
Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart
~quotes on I Love You by Author Unknown
Love is grand; divorce a hundred grand.
~sayings on Marriage by Author Unknown
A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.
~quotations on Dieting by Herbert B. Prochnow
To save yourself much disappointment, realize early in life that every job has some dreary details that can’t dodge. Manual work is not degrading. There’s nothing for frayed nerves like physical work. When worried us your brain less and your muscles more.
~top gun movie quotes by
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
~saying about top gun movie by E.D. Martin, The Meaning of a Liberal Education
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
~quote about Worry by Calvin Coolidge
Nothing has to remain the way it is if that's not the way a person wants it to be.
~quotes on Dreams by Azie Taylor Morton
Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.
~sayings on Dogs by Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
A married daughter with children puts you in danger of being catalogued as a first edition.
~quotations on Grandparents by Author Unknown
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
~top gun movie quotes by Guilaume Apollinaire
Country music is three chords and the truth.
~saying about top gun movie by Harlan Howard
Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.
~quote about Golf by Arthur Daley
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
~quotes on Mothers by Spanish Proverb
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