hilarious quotes and sayings for facebook

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ~Will Durant



You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. ~Harriet Woods



Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury. ~William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of Sentiments, Boston Peace Conference, 1838



We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher



Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related. ~J.C. Watts, Jr.



It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons. ~Arthur Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke



A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. ~Charlotte Bronte



We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. ~Jean Paul Sartre, Situations, 1939



O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair. ~William Congreve, The Way of the World, spoken by the character Mrs Millamant



No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate



To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life



All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder. ~Author Unknown



Some folks never exaggerate - they just remember big. ~Attributed to both Audrey Snead and Chi Chi Rodriguez



It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. ~Nathaniel S. Borenstein



May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after! ~Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1749



If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. ~Dorothy Canfield Fisher If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. ~Dorothy Canfield Fisher



Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. ~Robert Ingersoll Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



A horse is poetry in motion. ~Author Unknown



Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another. ~Arnold Toynbee