Favourite Quotes

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
- Jack Handey


The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
- Laurence J. Peter

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

I like sounding well read so.....

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
- George Bernard Shaw

A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.
- Anonymous

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
- Don Delillo

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
- Alec Bourne

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
- Jules Renard

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
- Quentin Crisp

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
- Galileo Galilei

A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
- Katharine Whitehorn

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.
- David Frost

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e e cummings

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
- Mickey Mouse

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
- Thomas H. Huxley

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
- Henry Ford

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
- Charles de Montesquieu