quotes about yourself for pictures

When I learned to sew, I forgot how to cook. ~Author Unknown



Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb



Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. ~William Osler



History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. ~Ted Koppel



Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. ~Erich Fromm



An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ~George Eliot, Felix Holt, Chapter 5 (Thanks Julie!)



Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet



We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy. ~William Osler



A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ~George Moore



We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves. ~Arnold Toynbee



One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. ~Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story



All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it. ~John Berger



Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water. ~Dave Barry, Why Humor Is Funny



If you have never said "Excuse me" to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time. ~Sherri Chasin Calvo



We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. ~Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888



An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. ~Henry Wotton, Reliqui? Wottonian?



By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression. ~Sigmund Freud



Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Author Unknown