funny business quotes

Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression. ~Gerard K. O'Neill, 2081



Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football. ~Anthony Burgess



The years teach much which the days never knew. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The private lives of the ancients are now the public sport of the moderns. ~Ivor Brown



There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. ~Vicki Baum



A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ~John Barrymore



The number one sign you have nothing to do at work: The 4th Division of Paperclips has overrun the Pushpin Infantry and General White-Out has called for a new skirmish. ~Fred Barling, "Humorscope"



You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. ~Author Unknown



The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. ~Benjamin Disraeli



When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high. ~Mary H. Waldrip



May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand. ~Irish Blessing



No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero



There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." ~C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, 1943



If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. ~Pope John Paul II



We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor



Against abortion? Don't have one. ~Author Unknown



A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. ~Henry David Thoreau



It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf. ~Robert Lynd



A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. ~Yogi Berra