Quotes September 2007
Thanks to Sandra V. for the Steven Wright quotes


Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Marylin Monroe

When I'm good, I'm very very good; and when I'm bad... I'm even better.

Mae West

A lie can get half-way around the world, while the truth is still putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Steven Wright

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

William Shakespeare

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

Benjamin Franklin

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

Groucho Marx

A witty saying proves nothing.

Voltaire

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

H.L. Mencken

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Benjamin Disraeli

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Sir Winston Churchill

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles