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My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything
because I procrastinate. I said, 'Just wait.'
- Judy Tenuta
Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of
robbing; and from robbing, he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and
from that to incivility and procrastination.
- Thomas De Quincey
These things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast, salt and
hesitation.
- The Talmud
Progress is the mother of problems.
- G.K. Chesterton
Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone one too long.
- Ogden Nash
The progress of the times...such that little children, who can neither walk nor
talk, may be seen cursing their Maker!
- Sir Boyle Roche
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin
Franklin said it first.
- David H. Comins
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
- Elbert Hubbard
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
- Walter Winchell
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
- Franz Kafka
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
- Bernard De Voto
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the
pessimist fears this is true.
- James Branch Cabell
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
- Havelock Ellis
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
- Quentin Crisp
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
- Raymond Aron
Truth is shorter than fiction.
- Irv Cohen
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be
warm for the rest of his life.
- Terry Pratchett
Cleanliness is almost as bad as godliness.
- Samuel Butler
Don't put all your eggs in one bastard.
- Dorothy Parker
Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.
- John Ciardi
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll
starve to death while praying for a fish.
- Timothy Jones
I wept because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I took his
shoes.
- Dave Barry
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
- G.K. Chesterton
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
- Paul Beatty
If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment.
- Harry F. Banks
If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. If you give a man a stick of
TNT, there will be little unidentifiable fish parts all over the village.
- Jack Handy
It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after
they inherit it.
- Kin Hubbard
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
- Anthony Burgess
Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
- Josh Billings
My cup's been run over.
- Mark T. Shirey
Never be a pioneer. It's the Early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
- Saki (H. H. Munro)
Never judge a book by its movie.
- J. W. Eagan
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
- Don Marquis
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
- Franklin P. Adams
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
- Nick Gorski
Whatever goes up must come down, but don't expect it to come down where you can
find it.
- Lily Tomlin
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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