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If you decide to play the quote game, good luck and begin here:
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Example of a syllogism:
I'm a nobody.
Nobody is perfect.
Therefore I am perfect.
—Anonymous
Please Lord, let me prove that
winning the lottery won't spoil me.
—Anonymous
A job worth doing is worth complaining about.
—Anonymous
Somebody told me how frightening it was how much
topsoil we are losing each year,
but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.
—Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts
Save a tree: Eat a beaver.
—Bumper Sticker
Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than
some sort of striking surface
attached to the end of a long stick.
—Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts
He's dead, Jim. You grab his wallet,
I’ll grab his tricorder.
—Bones
No, Groucho is not my real name.
I’m breaking it in for a friend.
—Groucho Marx ( 1890 - 1977 )
We used to laugh at Grandpa when he'd head off and go fishing.
But we wouldn't be laughing that evening when he'd come back
with
some whore he picked up in town.
—Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
—Jessamyn West
The right half of the brain controls
the left half of the body.
This means that only left handed people
are in their right mind.
—Anonymous
History is a vast early warning system.
—Norman Cousins ( 1915 - 1990 )
When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.
—Indian ( or maybe cowboy ) proverb
I judge a religion as being good or bad based on
whether its adherents
become better people as a
result of practicing it.
—Joe Mullally
A different language is a different vision of life.
—Federico Fellini ( 1920 - 1993 )
Have you ever noticed how nothing is impossible
for those who don't have to do it ?
—Anonymous
How can I lose to such an idiot ?
—shouted out by chess master
Aaron Nimzovich ( 1886-1935 )
When you die, if you go somewhere where they ask
you a bunch of questions about
your life and what
you learned and all, I think a good way to
get out of it is just to say,
"No speaka English."
—Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts
Love is friendship set on fire.
—Jeremy Taylor
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian
any more than going to the garage makes you a car.
—Albert Schweitzer ( 1875 - 1965 )
I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.
—Anonymous
I would have been your father but the guy
in front of me had exact change
—Anonymous
I said that if people tell you your mother
is not prime minister anymore,
you just turn around and say,
"So what ?
How often has your mother been prime minister ?"
—Ousted Pakistani leader
Benazir Bhutto
recounting advice she gave her children
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill:
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere.
Come and bring a friend - if you have one.
Churchill’s reply:
Impossible to be present for the first performance.
Will attend second - if there is one.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
—Robert Brault
End of test. Pencils down.
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