Was it Oscar Wilde who said 'I can resist everything except temptation'?
Was it Oscar Wilde who said 'I can resist everything except temptation'?
What about Groucho?
"I never met a man I didn't like, but in your case I'm willing to
make an exception."
Nature has given us two ears, but only one mouth.
- Benjamin Disraeli, Henrietta Temple
"Facts change, but opinions don't."
Walter Cronkite
Quoted by Harry S. Dent, Jr, "The Demographic Cliff", page 227.
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'Who loves not wine, woman and song,
He is a fool his whole life long!'
William Makepeace Thackeray, A Credo
"Suppose you were an idiot ... And suppose you were a member of Congress .. But I repeat myself." -Mark Twain
More true than ever.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
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“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”
-Will Rogers
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
My Blog: Of Delicious Recoil
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Don't forget Ambrose Bierce:
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
My Blog: Of Delicious Recoil
http://stlukesguild.tumblr.com/
Back in high school I was a big fan of Ambroce Bierce. I liked his definition of Exile so much I wrote it down in my journal:
EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.
An English sea-captain being asked if he had read "The Exile of Erin," replied: "No, sir, but I should like to anchor on it." Years afterwards, when he had been hanged as a pirate after a career of unparalleled atrocities, the following memorandum was found in the ship's log that he had kept at the time of his reply:
Aug. 3d, 1842. Made a joke on the ex-Isle of Erin. Coldly received. War with the whole world!
"So-Crates: The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing." "That's us, dude!"- Bill and Ted
"This ain't over."- Charles Bronson
Feed the Hungry!
I don't remember who said this, excuse me. It was a certain public speaker or lecturer and it goes like this:
Many times I noticed people looking at their watches while I was speaking, because they could hardly wait for the speach to end, but once I saw a man not only looking at his watch, but putting it on his ear to cheque if it was working at all.
Timothy Timex.
Since Twain, Wilde, and Churchill have already been thoroughly named... how about the surprise entry of Socrates?
"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher." A quote applicable to those in any type of relationship
This from Stephen King has always tickled me:
I'm the literary equivalent of a big mac and fries.
love many
trust few
always paddle
your own canoe
"A jealous women does better research than FBI"..