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Incarnadine

Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear

Posts tagged with "quotes"

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"Follow your bliss." - Joseph Campbell

"I dwell in possibility." - Emily Dickinson

"Memory is the scribe of the soul." - Aristotle

"Moonlight is sculpture." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Fatigue is the best pillow." - Benjamin Franklin

"Continuity in everything is unpleasant." - Blaise Pascal

"When humor goes, there goes civilization." - Erma Bombeck

"The heart is forever inexperienced." - Henry David Thoreau

"You can never plan the future by the past." - Edmund Burke

"A questioning man is halfway to being wise." - Irish Proverb

"The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow." - H. G. Wells

"All decisions are made on insufficient evidence." - Rita Mae Brown

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear." - Jack Canfield

"Every second is of infinite value." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The greatest power is often simple patience." - Joseph E. Cossman

"A wise man hears one word and understands two." - Yiddish Proverb

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it." - Richard Bach

"One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be." - Eric Butterworth

"Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve." - Charles Caleb Colton

"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." - Scottish Proverb

"I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being." - Anatole France

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill

"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." - Calvin Coolidge

"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it." - Frank A. Clark

"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world." - Leonard Cohen

"Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played." - Grant M. Bright

"Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself." - Henry Havelock Ellis

"Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears." - Charles Caleb Colton

"It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen." - Frances Hodgson Burnett

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." - Bertrand Russell

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

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As I pondered potential themes for this, my latest contribution to the (ugh) "blogosphere," I suddenly thought to myself, "You know, it's about time we had a little bit of levity around here." Exact words! To be honest, though, I really don't have it in me right now, and I know better than to try and force humor - the results are generally quite disastrous. So, I'm afraid we'll have to make do with what I promise will be the last batch of famous quotes for a while. Enjoy...

"The superfluous is very necessary." - Voltaire

"I really didn't say everything I said." - Yogi Berra

"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt." - J. Heller

"The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time." - Leo Kennedy

"Procrastination gives you something to look forward to." - Joan Konner

"If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button." - Sam Levenson

"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." - Jonathan Winters

"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing." - Kingsley Amis

"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit." - Somerset Maugham

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein

"Whenever people agree with me, I always think I must be wrong." - Oscar Wilde

"When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy." - Billy Hughes

"Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?" - John Mendosa

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." - John Galbraith

"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." - Henry Allen

"All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific." - Jane Wagner

"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." - Henry Kissinger

"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?" - Harry Shearer

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles Schultz

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." - Niels Bohr

"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment." - Robert Benchley

"Every morning, I get up and look through the 'Forbes' list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." - Robert Orben

Hastily harvested hodgepodge of halfwitted hilarity

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Semi-humorous quotes (anonymous/unattributed):

Never hire a colorblind electrician.

Why is "abbreviation" such a long word?

I'm not a complete idiot; some parts are missing.

I live in my own little world, but it's okay - they know me here.

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that there is a limit to genius.

If you think nobody cares whether you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

Never offend with style when you can offend with substance.

I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.

There's an old proverb that says just about anything you want it to.

If carrots are good for the eyes, how come I see so many dead rabbits on the highway?

A boss is someone who's early when you're late and late when you're early.

The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your actions.

How come we choose from just two people for president and fifty for Miss America?

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, however, there is.

Why be difficult when with a bit of effort you can be impossible?

Never let a computer know that you’re in a hurry.

Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with the software.

Internet (n). A world-wide network of computers which allows a person to demonstrate self-importance to and practice self-aggrandizement on a far wider audience than previously possible.