* "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it" - Moses Hadas
* "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure" - Clarence Darrow
*"What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary" - Mark Twaine
*“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all” - Lord Byron
*“The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night” - Otto von Bismarck
*"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.” - Orson Wells
*"When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure.”- Tommy Lasorda - American Baseball Manager
*"You never know where to look when eating a banana. " - Peter Kaye
* "I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on" - Roseanne Barr
*"I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum" - George Bernard Shaw
* "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." - Mark Twain
*"If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you" - Muhammad Ali
*"Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself." - Yogi Berra after being told he looked cool
*"Human beings are 70% water and with some the rest is colagen" - Martin Mull
*"Is this chicken or is this fish? I know it's tuna but it says chicken of the sea." - Jessica Simpson
*"I dress sexily - but not in an obvious way. Sexy in a virginal way" - Victoria Beckham
*"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly" - Oscar Wilde
*"Old age ain't no place for sissies" - Bette Davis
* "I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows." - Janette Barber
*"One should not worry about the future, particularly if it hasn't happened yet." - Mel Gibson
* "Modesty is the only good quality I don't have." - Jordan W. Shipley
*"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy" - Benjamin Franklin
* "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." - Archibald MacLeish
*"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" - Frank Scully
*"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives" - William Dement
* "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree" - Martin Luther
*"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so". - Douglas Adams
*"I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?" - Zsa Zsa Gabor
*"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self". - Cyril Connolly
*"I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking." - Albert Einstein
*"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
*"A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing." - Joey Adams
*"When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country". - Elayne Boosler
*"Patience is the companion of wisdom" - St. Augustine
*"No man is rich enough to buy back his past." - Oscar Wilde
*"By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere." - Billy Crystal
*"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same." - Oscar Wilde
*"Anger is a weed; hate is a tree" - St. Augustine
*"A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin." - Elizabeth Hurley
*"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on." - Dean Martin
*"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL." - Lynn Lavner
*"Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon." - Thomas Blount
*"We've got a nation of people who have one eye looking out for the next speed camera, another looking for a speed limit sign and another looking at the speedometer - which is a bit of a shame, when you only have two eyes." - Paul Smith, head of a uk group opposing speed cameras
* "A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist." - Franklin Jones
*"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings" - Salvador Dali
*"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us" - Author: Helen Keller
*"Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope." - Camille Paglia
*"There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more." - Woody Allen
* "God created the poet, then took a handful of the rubbish that was left and made three critics." - T.J. Thomas
*"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein
*"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception." - Groucho Marx
*"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead." - Johnny Carson
*"The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less." - Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
* "When the sun comes up, I have morals again" - Elayne Boosler
*"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age" - Lucille Ball
*"Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret" - Lawrence J. Peter
*"There is more to life than increasing its speed." - Gandhi
*"It isn't premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married"- George Burns
*"A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth" - Christopher Wren
*"Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." - R. Kennedy
*"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch" - Jack Nicholson
*"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing" - George Bernard Shaw
*"Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?" - Brendan Behan, when asked what was the message in one of his plays
*"Choose a job you like and you will never have to work a day of your life - Confucius
*"Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love" - William Shakespeare
*"I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house." -Zsa Zsa Gabor
*"We have 40 million reasons for failure but not a single excuse" - Rudyard Kipling
*"Keeping your clothes well pressed, will keep you from looking hard pressed" - Coleman Cox
*"If you can laugh at it, you can live with it." - Erma Bombeck
* "Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them" - Aristotle
*"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot" - Salvador Dali
*"Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on a Saturday night." - Woody Allen
*"When you are down and out, something always turns up - usually the noses of your friends." - Orson Welles
*" Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself" - George Bernard Shaw
*" I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor" - Joan Rivers
* "I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part". - Shirley MacLaine
*"Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world" - Susan Anthony
*"At fifty everyone has the face they deserve" - George Orwell
*"All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal" . . . Sir Winston Churchill
*"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back" - Barbara DeAngelis
*"Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf - Will Rogers
*"Between thought and expression lies a lifetime." - Lou Reed
* "Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
*"There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad" - Salvador Dali
*"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown
*"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life" - Muhammad Ali
*" Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed" - Coleman Cox
*"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up but a comedy in long shot ". - Charlie Chaplin
*"When women go wrong, men go straight after them - Mae West
*"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house. - Lewis Grizzard
* "When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad I'm better." - Mae West
*"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." - George Bernard Shaw
*"When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools." - Russell Baker
*"God gave men a brain and a penis, but only enough blood to run one at a time. - Robin Williams
*" Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. - Lyman Beecher
*"Pressure makes diamonds." - General George Patton
*"Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee " - David Frost
*"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." - Frank Outlaw
*"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." - Benjamin Franklin
*"There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning." - Christopher Morley
* "Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. - Phyllis Diller
*"What a man misses mostly in heaven is company. - Mark Twain
*" Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at". - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
*"You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln
*"People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I'll tell you: a paternity suit". - George Burns
*" The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too. - Anton Chekhov
*" When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her." - Sacha Guitry
*"What we see depends mainly on what we look for" - John Lubbock
*" In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.
*"Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say". - Charles Caleb Colton
*" The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies". ~ Lester Bowles Pearson
*"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane." - Robert Green Ingersoll
*" Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true". - Julius Caesar
*"My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it". - Robert Montgomery
*"It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven". - Josh Billings
*" You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time". - Abraham Lincoln
*"A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults." - Louis Nizer
*" I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein
*"Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there." - David Bowie
*A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it." - Israel Zangwill
*" Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today" - Dr. John C Maxwell
*"Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat" - Alex Levine
*My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition." - Mohandas Gandhi
*"A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns."
- Mario Puzo
*"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway
*"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
*Bessie Braddock (to Winston Churchill): "Winston, you're drunk."
Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober."
*Nancy Astor (to Winston Churchill): "If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!"
Churchill: "And if I were your husband I would drink it."
*"If you really dig a chick, you should talk to her, not steal her picture." - Mike Nesmith (The Monkees)
*"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely" - W Somerset Maughan
*"Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt" - Antoinette Deshoulieres
*"I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned" - Duke of Wellington
*"I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27" - Clement Atlee
*"Money is a good servant, but a poor master" - Dominique Bouhours
*"An Eye for an Eye, and the world would soon be blind". - M. K. Ghandi
*"Hell is full of musical amateurs". - George Bernard Shaw
*"Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon". - Thomas Blount
*"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten , but they may start a winning game." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
*"Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate." - Ambrose Bierce.
*You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln
*You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato
*The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you - Charles Dickens
*What we see depends mainly on what we look for - John Lubbock
*Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
*The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. - Mark Twain
*He that never changes his opinion, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow that he is today. - Tyron Edwards
*Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. - Voltaire
*It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. - Albert Einstein
*Seriousness is the only refuge for the shallow - Oscar Wilde
*A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on - Sam Goldwyn
*Winning is not everything. It's the only thing. - Author: Vince Lombardi
*"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
*Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right - Henry Ford
*Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas Jefferson
*Arguing with a fool proves there are two. - Doris M. Smith
*A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth. - Christopher Wren
* Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery - Spike Milligan
*Patience is not a virtue, it is a waste of time. - Damon Conlan,
*The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff - Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
*People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. - Otto von Bismarck
*I drink therefore I am - W.C. Fields
*He who can does - he who cannot, teaches. - George Bernard Shaw
*I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they are going to feel all day - Frank Sinatra
*You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you've got music. - Sid Vicious [Sex Pistols]
*Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life - Herbert Henry Asquith
*My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil - Paul Getty
*My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying. - Ed Furgol
*It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. - George Burns
*"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

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