September 21, 2007

Good Quotes

Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when you're finished.
--
Leslie Nielsen

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
-- Jerome K Jerome (Three Men in a Boat, 1889)

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- Robert Frost

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
-- Robert Frost

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

-- Charles Lamb

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.
-- Milo Bloom

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
-- William Faulkner

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
-- Jimmy Durante

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
-- Will Rogers

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- HL Mencken

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
- Peter Ustinov

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
- Amanda Cross

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
- Judith Martin

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep...
- Robert Frost

The years teach much that the days never know.
- Emerson

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dave Gardner

We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are.
- Talmud

The best thing about failure is that it keeps you humble.
- Alan Ball, writer of American Beauty

The spirit of Fight belongs to the genius of Life.
- Rabindranath Tagore

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.
- St. Augustine

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
- Steven Wright

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. - Laurence J. Peter

There is something positive in everything. Even a stopped watch is right twice a day.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody is there to appreciate it.

- Franklin P. Jones

Always tell the truth. Even if you have to make it up.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook. ~Groucho Marx

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. ~Helen Rowland

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. ~Joseph Baretti, quoted by James Boswell, 1766, popularly misattributed to Samuel Johnson

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. ~J.C. Watts

Character is much easier kept than recovered. ~Thomas Paine

One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough. ~Arthur Freed

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? ~William Lloyd Garrison

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. ~William Safire

Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves. ~Author Unknown

Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility. ~Giosué Borsi

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. ~Peter McArthur

Begin each day as if it were on purpose

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. ~Mark Twain

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. ~Mick Jagger

We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us. ~Author Unknown

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. ~John G. Pollard

Many people quit looking for work when they find a job. ~Author Unknown

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. ~James Matthew Barrie

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. ~Douglas Adams

As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold. ~Author Unknown

Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich. ~Author Unknown

No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap. ~Carrie Snow

Consciousness: that annoying time between naps. ~Author Unknown

There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock. ~Author Unknown

I'm not asleep... but that doesn't mean I'm awake. ~Author Unknown

Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy. ~Author Unknown

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more. ~Wilson Mizener

People who snore always fall asleep first. ~Author Unknown

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night. ~Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world. ~Edgar Watson Howe

No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up. ~Robert Lynd

I'd like mornings better if they started later. ~Author Unknown

Dreams are free, so free your dreams. ~Astrid Alauda

“Quote - Erroneously repeating others words”. Not sure of this one either.

Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-- Albert Einstein

Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.
-- Groucho Marx

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.
-- Mark Twain

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Mark Twain

Dear Sir, Your profession has, as usual, destroyed your brain.
-- George Bernard Shaw

If everything's under control, you're going too slow.
-- Mario Andretti

The nice part of living in a small town is that when I don't know what I'm doing, someone else does.
-- Source Unknown

Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
-- Antonio Smith

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.
-- Henry Ford

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
-- Oscar Wilde

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
-- Voltaire

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.
-- Source Unknown

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
-- Sid Caesar

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
-- Jonathan Swift

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
-- Gregory I

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
-- Satchel Paige

I'm in shape ... round's a shape isn't it?
-- Source Unknown

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The road to a friend?s house is never too long.
-- Danish Proverb

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
-- Ed Cunningham

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
-- John Leonard

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
-- Mark Twain

I can resist everything except temptation.
-- Oscar Wilde

Be like a postage stamp, stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Sign at a Church

Laughter is an instant vacation.
-- Milton Berle

I just want what I want when I want it!
-- Source Unknown

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-- Norman MacEswan

How we spend our time is how we spend our life.
-- Source Unknown

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast us.
-- William James

Approach any task as if it's impossible to fail. If you're going after Moby Dick, take along some tartar sauce.
-- H. Jackson Brown

Before you ask me if the glass is half full or half empty, tell me what is in the glass!
-- Source Unknown

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams

Live in such a way that there will be no regrets when someone else follows in your footsteps.
-- Source Unknown

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for..:-)

"If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are." -- Zen proverb

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.- Blaise Pascal

 

I'm a classic example of all humorists — only funny when I'm working.

-Peter Sellers

Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.

- George Bernard Shaw

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. - Peter Ustinov
 
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
 
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. 
--Albert Einstein
 
I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message
 
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other - Eric Hoffer
 
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H. L. Mencken
 
Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death. - Kahlil Gibran
 
The Internet is a great way to get on the Net. - Bob Dole
 
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. --Robert A. Heinlein
 
The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. --Margaret Carty
 
Money was invented so we could know exactly how much we owe. 
Cullen Hightower
 
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money. - Henny Youngman
 
If you feel like doing some work, sit down and … … wait until that feeling goes away.
 
Great minds discuss ideas

Average minds discuss events

Small minds discuss people


-- Eleanor Roosevelt Inspirational, Motivational Quotes and Sayings
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

- Thomas Szasz Funny Short Quotes, Daily Quotes, Short Sayings
 
I Forgot To Remember To Forget
 
Love happens only once, rest all is Life
 
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an
hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S
relativity.
 
- Albert Einstein
 
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working
the moment you get up in the morning and does not
stop until you get into the office.
 
- Robert Frost
 
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's
there to appreciate it.
 
- Franklin P. Jones
 
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain
the success of those we don't like?
 
- Jean Cocturan
 
It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win
or lose.
 
- Darrin Weinberg
 
Life is pleasant.
Death is peaceful.
It's the transition that's troublesome.
 
Help a man when he is in trouble and he will
remember you when he is
in trouble again.
 
Complex problems have simple, easy to understand
wrong answers.
 
It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it
creative problem solving.
 
Whoever said money can't buy happiness, didn't know
Where to shop.
 
Alcohol doesn't solve any problems, but then again,
neither does milk.
 
Most people are only alive because it is illegal to
Shoot them.
.....SHOOT THE ONE U LONG WANTED TO....WORTH  THE TERM BUD!....YES U!!!
 
Forgive your enemies but remember their names.
 
The number of people watching you is directly
proportional to the stupidity of your action.
 
Don't worry that the world ends today, it's already
Tomorrow in Australia!

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