Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. ~Gian Vincenzo Gravina
No one is listening until you fart. ~Author Unknown
When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time. ~Author Unknown
Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere
Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species of voyeur. ~Carrie Latet
Hug a firefighter and feel warm all over. ~Author Unknown
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner. ~Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol 1, book VII, chapter 4
When the wine goes in, strange things come out. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Piccolomini, 1799
There's nothing like a mama-hug. ~Terri Guillemets
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. ~Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961
For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. ~Bill O'Reilly, about capitalism
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. ~Richard Darman, director of the Office of Management and Budget, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. ~Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest"
It was as true... as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them. ~Charles Dickens
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. ~Bernard M. Baruch
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller
Grandfathers are just antique little boys. ~Author Unknown
A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. ~Michael Garrett Marino
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~Thomas Edison
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. ~William Feather
The pupil can only educate himself. Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God's vessels. ~Martin H. Fischer
War would end if the dead could return. ~Stanley Baldwin
I expanded with the joy of your love and presence but now that you're gone I just feel bloated. ~Carrie Latet
Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat. ~Oxford Union Society, London, Rule 46
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