Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
The next time someone asks you, "Hey, howdja get to be a homosexual anyway?" tell them, "Homosexuals are chosen first on talent, then interview... then the swimsuit and evening gown competition pretty much gets rid of the rest of them." ~Karen Williams
It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May. ~Denis Norden
Of all the supervised conditions for life offered man, those under U S A's constitution have proved the best. Wherefore, be sure when you start modifying, corrupting or abrogating it. ~Martin H. Fischer
Abraham Lincoln needs no marble shaft to perpetuate his name; his words are the most enduring monument, and will forever live in the hearts of the people. ~Osborn H. Oldroyd
He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon made of grene cheese. ~Sir Thomas More
How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all colour-blind? ~Author Unknown
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ~Shana Alexander
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law. ~H.G. Wells, Bealby, 1915
Most bicyclists in New York City obey instinct far more than they obey the traffic laws, which is to say that they run red lights, go the wrong way on one-way streets, violate cross-walks, and terrify innocents, because it just seems easier that way. Cycling in the city, and particularly in midtown, is anarchy without malice. ~Author unknown, from New Yorker, "Talk of the Town"
My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one. ~Bob Hope
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. ~Carl G. Jung Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. ~Martina Navratilova
In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. ~Osbert Sitwell
History is past politics, and politics present history. ~John Robert Seeley, The Growth of British Policy
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters. ~Roger L'Estrange, Aesop's Fables, 1692
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. ~Marian Zimmer Bradley
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. ~Marshall Lumsden
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned. ~From the movie The Color of Money
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. ~George Bernard Shaw
Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. ~Benjamin Disraeli
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. ~Attributed to James A. Garfield
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. ~Adlai Stevenson
Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God. ~Francis Bacon
Death is life's way of telling you you're fired. ~Author Unknown
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