Amusement is the… Alexander Pope
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
Alexander Pope
English poet & satirist (1688 - 1744)
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The average dog is… Andrew A. Rooney
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andrew A. Rooney
February 27th, 2006 - Posted in Andrew A. Rooney | | 0 Comments
I do not say a… Miguel Cervantes
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
Miguel Cervantes
February 26th, 2006 - Posted in Miguel Cervantes | | 0 Comments
Nobody ever… Robert Byrne
Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
Robert Byrne
February 25th, 2006 - Posted in Robert Byrne | | 0 Comments
Anybody who has… Stephen Leacock
Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
Stephen Leacock, 1912
Canadian economist & humorist (1869 - 1944)
February 24th, 2006 - Posted in Stephen Leacock | | 0 Comments
Reviewing has one… George Bernard Shaw
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
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Good taste is the… Pablo Picasso
Good taste is the enemy of creativity
Pablo Picasso
Spanish Cubist painter (1881 - 1973)
February 22nd, 2006 - Posted in Pablo Picasso | | 0 Comments
Our imagination is… Charles F. Kettering
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles F. Kettering
US electrical engineer & inventor (1876 - 1958)
February 21st, 2006 - Posted in Charles F. Kettering | | 0 Comments
I know a… Ernest Coquelin
I know a mother-in-law who sleeps with her glasses on, the better to see her son-in-law suffer in her dreams.
Ernest Coquelin
February 20th, 2006 - Posted in Ernest Coquelin | | 0 Comments
Traditionalists… Ed Parker
Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.
February 19th, 2006 - Posted in Ed Parker | | 0 Comments
The odds against… Benny Hill
The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
Benny Hill
February 18th, 2006 - Posted in Benny Hill | | 0 Comments
It is now possible… Richard J. Ferris
It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.
Richard J. Ferris, president, United Airlines
February 17th, 2006 - Posted in Richard J. Ferris | | 0 Comments
Thank God men… Henry David Thoreau
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau, Jan. 3, 1861
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)
February 16th, 2006 - Posted in Henry David Thoreau | | 0 Comments
We cherish our… Evelyn Waugh
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
Evelyn Waugh
English novelist & satirist (1903 - 1966)
February 15th, 2006 - Posted in Evelyn Waugh | | 0 Comments
Man is what he… Anton Chekhov
Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
Russian dramatist & short story author (1860 - 1904)
February 14th, 2006 - Posted in Anton Chekhov | | 0 Comments
If I ever marry, it… H. L. Mencken
If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)
February 13th, 2006 - Posted in H. L. Mencken | | 0 Comments
Doctors are men who… Voltaire
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.
Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
February 12th, 2006 - Posted in Voltaire | | 0 Comments
Name me an emperor… Charles V
Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
Charles V
February 11th, 2006 - Posted in Charles V | | 0 Comments
You can no more win… Jeannette Rankin
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin
US pacifist & politician (1880 - 1973)
February 10th, 2006 - Posted in Jeannette Rankin | | 0 Comments
The object of war… General George Patton
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
General George Patton
February 9th, 2006 - Posted in General George Patton | | 0 Comments
Name me and emperor… Charles V
Name me and emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
Charles V
February 8th, 2006 - Posted in Charles V | | 0 Comments
Friendship is a… Mortimer Adler
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adler
February 7th, 2006 - Posted in Mortimer Adler | | 0 Comments
A sportsman is a… Stephen Leacock
A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.
Stephen Leacock
Canadian economist & humorist (1869 - 1944)
February 6th, 2006 - Posted in Stephen Leacock | | 0 Comments
Marriage is a… Oscar Levant
Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.
Oscar Levant
(1906 - 1972)
February 5th, 2006 - Posted in Oscar Levant | | 0 Comments
What we say is… Jim Beggs
What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
Jim Beggs
February 4th, 2006 - Posted in Jim Beggs | | 0 Comments
Why should I… Vladimir Nabokov
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
Vladimir Nabokov
US (Russian-born) author & translator (1899 - 1977)
February 3rd, 2006 - Posted in Vladimir Nabokov | | 0 Comments
Half of analysis is… Marty Indik
Half of analysis is anal.
Marty Indik
February 2nd, 2006 - Posted in Marty Indik | | 0 Comments
Show me a sane man… C.G. Jung
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
C.G. Jung
February 1st, 2006 - Posted in C.G. Jung | | 0 Comments