Favorite Quotes!
Here is a lovely list of my favorite quotes. If you have a quote you would like to add, for now you can mail it to me, but eventually I will set up a form that can be acessed from this very page. On with the quotes!!
1.) "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society"-Mark Twain
2.)"If you're paranoid, that doesn't mean they're not watching you"-Anonymous
3.)"The greatest obstacle to your success is probably you."-Frank Tyger
4.)"Be open to changes, but don't be so open minded your brains fall out."-Anonymous
5.)"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."-Doug Carson
6.)"One place where you're sure to find the perfect driver is in the back seat."-Homer Phillips
7.)"WWBD: What Would Buddha Do?"-As seen on a T-shirt
8.)"May the light always find you on a dreary day. When you need to be home, may you find a way. May you always have courage, to take a chance. And never find frogs in your underpants."-A middle Aged Scandanavian
9.)"On a Cellular level, I'm really quite busy"-As seen on a T-shirt
10.)"C:/DOS, C:/DOS run, run DOS run."-T-shirt
11.)"It is a misfortune to be a soldier; it is a weariness to till the earth; the only happiness is to turn the heart to books during the daytime, and to read during the night."-Early Egyptian bookworm
12.)"Intellectual property laws have given our country the edge in technology-and ironically allowed us to have programs like Napster. Without them, we wouldn't be the tech capital of the world. In the 16th century, for instance, the Spanish empire didn't protect ship designers, so they all moved to England, and then England turned around and kicked Spains butt in some big important war. England is still an important country. Have you ever even heard of Spain?"-Joel Stein, Time Magazine Columnist
13.)"When angry, count four; When really angry, swear."-Mark Twain
14.)"Bad artists always admire each others work."-Oscar Wilde
15.)"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."-Tom Clancy
16.)"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the Monkey cage."-H.L. Mencken
17.)"In America, anybody can be President. That's one of the risks you take."-Adlai Stevenson
18.)"Perfume: Any smell that is used to drown out a worse one."-Elbert Hubbard
19.)"The big thieves hang the little ones."-Czech proverb
20.)"Guidelines for Bureacrats: 1.)When in charge, ponder. 2.)When in trouble, delegate. 3.)When in doubt, mumble."-James H. Borden
21.)"I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain."-Lily Tomlin
22.)"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."-Mae West
23.)"Marriage is somewhat like undertaking a Lego project without instructions."-Ammunni Bala Subramanian
24.)"The attempt to silence a man is the greatest favor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself."-Joseph Sobran
25.)"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell you more than he knows."-Dwight D. Eisenhower
26.)"Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else."-William Rotsler
27.)"Never assume the obvious is true."-William Safire
28.)"True power is knowing that you can, but you don't."-Juliet Alicia Jarvis
29.)"WARNING: Cape does not enable wearer to fly."-Label on Superman P.J.'s
30.)"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on Earth. So what the hell, leap!"-Cynthia Heimel
31.)"Sincerity is the key. If you can fake that, you've got it made."-George Burns
32.)"Common Sense is that layer of prejudices we acquire before we are 16."-Albert Einstein
33.)"Reader, suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress, but I repeat myself."-Mark Twain
34.)"99% of the people in this world are fools, and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."-Thornton Wilder
35.)"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."-Britney Spears (USA)
36.)"And if you give us any more trouble, I shall visit you in the small hours and put a bat up your night-dress."-Basil Fawlty
37.)"Being right too soon is socially unacceptable."-Robert A. Heinlein
38.)"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it."-W.C. Fields
39.)"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."-Charles Schultz (USA)
40.)"Millions yearn for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a Sunday afternoon."-Susan Ertz
41.)"Great spirits often meet violent opposition from mediocre minds."-Albert Einstein
42.)"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." -Douglas Adams, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
43.)The Ancient Egyptians worshipped cats as gods. Cats have never forgotten this."-T-shirt
44.)"Learn to think for yourself. You are not everybody's dog that whistles."-Early American Proverb
45.)"Sometimes life is like dancing with a gorilla: You're not done until the gorilla is."-Anonymous
46.)"God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts."-Anonymous
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