A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. ~Miguel de Cervantes
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. ~Katherine Hepburn
Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns. ~William S. Gilbert
Be naughty - save Santa a trip. ~Author Unknown
A brother is a friend given by Nature. ~Jean Baptiste Legouve
I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume. ~John Van Druten I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you. ~Margi Clark
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. ~Rogers Hornsby
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ~G.K. Chesterton, "On Running After One's Hat," All Things Considered, 1908
COFFEE.SYS Not Found: User startup disabled. ~Author Unknown
Those that say you can't take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip. ~Author Unknown
You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober. ~Bill Veeck, The Hustler's Handbook
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
Sometimes a headache is all in your head. Relax. ~Hartman Jule
The oaks and the pines, and their brethren of the wood, have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go, and so many generations pass into silence, that we may well wonder what "the story of the trees" would be to us if they had tongues to tell it, or we ears fine enough to understand. ~Author Unknown, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938
History is a bath of blood. ~William James, Memories and Studies
Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle? ~Flann O'Brien
Circa: Latin, literally meaning about; used to describe various dates that are uncertain; often abbreviated c. or ca.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. ~Sacha Guitry, Elles et toi, 1948
Over second and third cups flow matters of high finance, high state, common gossip and low comedy. Coffee is a social binder, a warmer of tongues, a soberer of minds, a stimulant of wit, a foiler of sleep if you want it so. From roadside mugs to the classic demi-tasse, it is the perfect democrat. ~Author Unknown
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. ~Richard Wilbur
Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more. ~George Bernard Shaw
And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave. ~Joseph Drake
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