Jun 29, 2010

Bertrand Russell

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Jun 28, 2010

Michael Pritchard

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Jun 27, 2010

Tom Hanks

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war or pick up a gun or get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

Jun 26, 2010

Aesop

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Jun 25, 2010

Henny Youngman

My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Jun 24, 2010

James Thurber

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

Jun 23, 2010

Kevin Rose

I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.

Mahatma Gandhi

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Jun 22, 2010

Don Juan Manuel

He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.

David Letterman

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.

Ray Bradbury

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Jun 21, 2010

Chester Bowles

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Dan Quayle

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

Jun 20, 2010

Judith Martin

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

George Iles

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

Jun 19, 2010

William S. Burroughs

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."

Zach Braff

I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.

Jun 18, 2010

Evan Esar

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.

Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Jun 17, 2010

Charles McCabe

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

Soren Kierkegaard

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Jun 16, 2010

Dale Carnegie

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain and most fools do.

Russell Baker

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Jun 15, 2010

Rita Rudner

My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.

Frank Dane

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

Jun 14, 2010

Scott Adams

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Mitch Hedberg

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.

Jun 13, 2010

Sir Francis Bacon

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Robert Chapman

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

Jun 12, 2010

RJS

I'm not worried about the bullet with my name on it... just the thousands out there marked 'Occupant.'

Plato

No human thing is of serious importance.

Jun 11, 2010

Martin Mull

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

Samuel Goldwyn

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Jun 10, 2010

Sir Winston Churchill

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

P. J. O'Rourke

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

Jun 9, 2010

Ferdinand Foch

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Lucille S. Harper

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

Jun 8, 2010

David Hoselton

I'm a jerk to everyone. Best way to protect yourself from lawsuits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Jun 7, 2010

Mark Twain

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Actions lie louder than words. - Carolyn Wells

rjs

Jun 6, 2010

Edgar Bergen

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Franklin P. Jones

The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back. - rjs

Jun 5, 2010

Robert Orben

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. - rjs

Jun 4, 2010

Queen Juliana

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.

George Orwell

Serious sport is war minus the shooting..

Jun 3, 2010

Paul Tillich

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it....

Peter Ustinov

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal...

Jun 2, 2010

Steven Wright

Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?'...

Al Mcguire

Winning is only important in war and surgery..

Jun 1, 2010

Harry S Truman

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell....

Will Rogers

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

George Burns

The secret of success is sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made..

May 31, 2010

Albert Einstein

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results....

Walter Winchell

Success is the reward of anyone who looks for trouble..

May 30, 2010

Franklin P. Jones

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger....

Wilson Mizner

Be nice to people on your way up, because you'll meet them on your way down...

May 29, 2010

Christoph Lichtenberg

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!... rjs

Johnny Cash

Success means having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money..

May 28, 2010

Isaac Asimov

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right....

Murray Koffler

My formula for success is dress british, look irish, think jewish...

May 27, 2010

George Bernard Shaw

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell....

Oscar Wilde

Work is the curse of the drinking Classes...

May 26, 2010

Hunter S. Thompson

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro....

Oscar Wilde

Work is the refuge of those who have nothing better to do..

May 25, 2010

Pierre Beaumarchais

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them....

Leo Rosten

If you want people to think you're wise, just agree with them.

May 24, 2010

Jane Caminos

A waist is a terrible thing to mind....

Philip Gibbs

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same..

May 23, 2010

Richard Feynman

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers....

Kin Hubbard.

If you want to get rid of somebody, just tell them something for their own good..

May 22, 2010

Peter Ustinov

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.....

Erica Jong

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answers but wish we didn't..

May 21, 2010

Lily Tomlin

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?...

Adlai Stevenson

Flattery hurts no one- so long as you don't inhale...

May 20, 2010

William Gibson

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet...

La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favours...

May 19, 2010

Charles M. Schulz

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love...

Kin Hubbard

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt...

May 18, 2010

Malcolm Bradbury

The english are polite by telling lies. The americans are polite by telling the truth..

May 17, 2010

Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves... RJS