short funny sayings and quotes

When you possess light within, you see it externally. ~Anais Nin



While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. ~Eugene V. Debs, Cleveland, 1917



In my opinion, a horse is the animal to have. Eleven-hundred pounds of raw muscle, power, grace, and sweat between your legs - it's something you just can't get from a pet hamster. ~Author Unknown



Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine. ~Author Unknown



When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. ~Antisthenes



Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims



You may delay, but time will not. ~Benjamin Franklin



Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~Dorothy Parker



Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. ~H.L. Mencken, Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebook, 1956



If you're being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade. ~Author Unknown



One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it. ~George MacDonald



The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. ~Bill Beattie



A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. ~Robert Frost



Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. ~Horace Walpole



Erratum: an act or thought that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or true; an error in printing or writing, especially such an error noted in a list of corrections and bound into a book; plural is errata.



I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. ~Mary Ellen Mark



Arm ourselves for war? No! All the arms we need are for hugging. ~Author Unknown



If your dog is fat, you're not getting enough exercise. ~Author Unknown



If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost. ~Lloyd Douglas