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Excellent put-downs
If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead already?
- - - Cynthia Heimel
The male chromosome is an incomplete female chromosome. In other words the male is
a walking abortion; aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient,
emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional
cripples.
- - - Valerie Solanos
The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed
signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose
like a trigonometry problem. What's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles
that come from a lifetime of bad character.�
- - - P.J. O'Rourke "Holidays in Hell"
You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his
wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
- - - Pamela Hansford Johnson
Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling
invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling,
dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've
got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they
can breed.
- - - D. H. Lawrence, 1912
Insults about nationality
Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think
there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the
Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.
- - - Bill Bryson
In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are
important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain
what a writer is.
- - - Geoffrey Cottrell
There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition
is that it is the place where the Germans are the police, the Swedish are the
comedians, the Italians are the defense force, Frenchmen dig the roads, the
Belgians are the pop singers, the Spanish run the railways, the Turks cook the
food, the Irish are the waiters, the Greeks run the government, and the common
language is Dutch.
- - - David Frost and Anthony Jay
America
America is a melting pot, the people at the bottom get burned while all the scum
floats to the top.
- - - Charlie King
Americans always try to do the right thing -- after they've tried everything else.
- - - Winston Churchill
Americans are possibly the dumbest people on the planet. ...We Americans suffer
from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside
our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.
- - - Michael Moore
Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup,
mustard, chili sauce, Tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper, or any other condiment which
destroys the original flavor of the dish.�
- - - Henry Miller
America is one long expectoration.
- - - Oscar Wilde
America knows nothing of food, love, or art.�
- - - Isadora Duncan
I don't see much future for the Americans. Everything about the behavior of the
American society reveals that it's half judaized, and the other half is negrified.
How can one expect a state like that to hold together?
- - - Adolf Hitler
In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.
- - - Woody Allen
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably
precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence to
never practice either of them.
- - - Mark Twain (about America)
Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy.
- - - Miles Kington
Of course, America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always
been hushed up.
- - - Oscar Wilde
The 100% American is 99% idiot.
- - - George Bernard Shaw
Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think
there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humor,
vivacity, or the capacity for enjoyment.
- - - Charles Dickens (about Americans)
Argentina
The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the
Argentineans descend from the boats.
- - - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist
Canada
Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.
- - - Richard Brenner
I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I
got by going to Canada was a cold.�
- - - Henry David Thoreau "A Yankee in Canada" (1853)
England
Britain is the only country in the world where the food is more dangerous than the
sex.
- - - Jackie Mason
England, the heart of a rabbit in the body of a lion. The jaws of a serpent, in an
abode of popinjays.
- - - Eugene Deschamps
English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve.�
- - -�Fred Allen "Treadmill to Oblivion"
I know why the sun never sets on the British Empire: God wouldn't trust an
Englishman in the dark.
- - - Duncan Spaeth
The English think soap is civilization.
- - - Heinrich von Treitschke
The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
- - - Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English
painting.
- - - Heinrich Heine
France
The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells
like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they
gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.
- - - P.J.O'Rourke
France is a country where the money falls apart but you can't tear the toilet
paper.�
- - - Billy Wilder
Germany
German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a
sick bag on a 747.
- - - Willy Rushton
Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.
- - - Mark Twain
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
- - - Clifton Fadiman
You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal,
too, for all the good it does.
- - - P.J. O'Rourke "Holidays in Hell"
Greece
Few things can be less tempting or dangerous than a Greek woman of the age of
thirty.
- - - John Carne
Ireland
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
- - - Sigmund Freud (about the Irish)
The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely
no talent.
- - - Hugh Leonard
Japan
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from
rudeness.
- - - Paul Theroux
Russia
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen
and his wife and children murdered.
- - - Winston Churchill
Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka,
smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread and vodka, pickled
cucumbers and vodka, cold tongue and vodka, red beet salad and vodka, scallions and
vodka-anything and everything and vodka.�
- - - Hedrick Smith "The Russians"
Scotland
Scotland: A land of meanness, sophistry and lust.
- - - Lord Byron
Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of
Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.
- - - Sydney Smith
Yugoslavia
The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.
- - - Ed Begley, Jr.
Insults about appearance
A blank, helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with
DDT.
- - - John Carey
A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.
- - - Earl Long
A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
- - - Winston Churchill
At first I thought he was walking a dog. Then I realized it was his date.
- - - Edith Massey in "Polyester"
Don't point that beard at me, it might go off.
- - - Groucho Marx
Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.
- - - Mark Twain
He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.
- - - Ayn Rand
He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.
- - - George C. Scott
He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
- - - Oliver Goldsmith
He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its
own.
- - - Margaret Halsey
He strains his conversation through a cigar.
- - - Hamilton Mabie
He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his
years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.
- - - -P.G. Wodehouse
He's a trellis for varicose veins.
- - - Wilson Mizner
He's so fat, he can be his own running mate.
- - - Johnny Carson
He's so small, he's a waste of skin.
- - - Fred Allen
He'd make a lovely corpse.
- - - Charles Dickens
Her face was her chaperone.
- - - Rupert Hughes
Her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.
- - - Woody Allen
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style. It will look ridiculous year
after year.
- - - Fred Allen
Her only flair is in her nostrils.
- - - Pauline Kael
Her skin was white as leprosy.
- - - S. T. Coleridge
His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue
drips poison.
- - - John Quincy Adams
His face was filled with broken commandments.
- - - John Masefield
His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.
- - - John Philpot Curran
His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.
- - - Charles Lamb
I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.
- - - Oscar Wilde
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
- - - Groucho Marx
I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.
- - - No�l Coward
Is that a beard, or are you eating a muskrat?
- - - Dr. Gonzo
It's like cuddling with a Butterball turkey.
- - - Jeff Foxworthy
Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
- - - Alan Bennett
She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
- - - Groucho Marx
She had much in common with Hitler, only no mustache.
- - - Noel Coward
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
- - - Oscar Wilde
She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.
- - - Elsa Lanchester
She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.
- - - Bob Fosse
She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots
on her yellow skin.
- - - Heinrich Heine
She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.
- - - Margot Asquith
She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
- - - James Matthew Barrie
She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.
- - - Will Rogers
She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
- - - Saul Bellow
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
- - - Jonathan Swift
The tautness of his face sours ripe grapes.
- - - William Shakespeare
When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for
the clothes.
- - - Josh Billings
While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth
at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred cosmetics boxes - even your face does
not sleep with you.
- - - Martial, 1st Century AD (to a female friend)
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
- - - Mark Twain
Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.
- - - P. G. Wodehouse
Yeah, she's beautiful, but you can't find her IQ with a flashlight.
- - - from "The Greatest American Hero"
You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
- - - Irvin S. Cobb
Insults about gender
Women
A woman is just a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
- - - Rudyard Kipling
A woman will lie about anything, just to stay in practice.
- - - Phillip Marlowe
A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done
well; but you are surprised to see it done at all.
- - - James Boswell
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often.
- - - Oliver Herford
Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her body.
- - - John Vanbrugh
The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she
is.
- - - Helen Rowland
Women are like elephants to me: nice to look at, but I wouldn't want to own one.
- - - W. C. Fields
Women's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking.
- - - Rupert Hughes
Men
Behind every great man, there is a surprised woman.
- - - Maryon Pearson
Outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.
- - - Katharine Whitehorn
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
- - - Elizabeth Taylor
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as
possible.
- - - Margaret Mead (May 15, 1958)
Insults about intelligence
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
- - - Alexander Pope
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
- - - Tom Waits
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
- - - Alexander Pope
Did you eat a brain tumor for breakfast?
- - - from "Heathers"
Differently clued.
- - - Dave Clark
Doesn't know much, but leads the league in nostril hair.
- - - Josh Billing
End of season sale at the cerebral department.
- - - Gareth Blackstock
Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale.
- - - David Letterman
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- - - Abraham Lincoln
He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.
- - - Robert Redford
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
- - - Billy Wilder
He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.
- - - David Lloyd George
He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.
- - - John Steinbeck
He is useless on top of the ground; he aught to be under it, inspiring the
cabbages.
- - - Mark Twain
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
- - - Joseph Heller
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political
career.
- - - George Bernard Shaw
He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
- - - Ellen Glasgow
He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.
- - - Forrest Tucker
He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He
really is an idiot.
- - - Groucho Marx
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
- - - Leo Tolstoy
He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.
- - - Earl of Rochester
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
- - - Sydney Smith
He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.
- - - John Ruskin
He used statistics the way a drunkard uses lampposts - for support, not
illumination.
- - - Andrew Lang
He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
- - - Samuel Butler
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea and that was wrong.
- - - Benjamin Disraeli
His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.
- - - Robin Williams
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it
anywhere.
- - - Mark Twain
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
- - - Abba Eban
His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.
- - - F. H. Bradley
His mind is so open that the wind whistles through it.
- - - Heywood Braun
I want to reach your mind - where is it currently located?
- - - Ashleigh Brilliant
I wish I'd known you when you were alive.
- - - Leonard Louis Levinson
I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.
- - - Eugene McCarthy
If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.
- - - William Lashner "Veritas"
Little things affect little minds.
- - - Benjamin Disraeli
Next-day delivery in a nanosecond world.
- - - Van Jacobson
No more sense of direction than a bunch of firecrackers.
- - - Rob Wagner
Please try not to be such a wiener-head.
- - - Dave Barry
Sharp as a sack full of wet mice.
- - - Foghorn Leghorn
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- - - W. Somerset Maugham
She is a water bug on the surface of life.
- - - Gloria Steinem
She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.
- - - Gypsy Rose Lee
Stay with me; I want to be alone.
- - - Joey Adams
Teflon brain (nothing sticks.)
- - - Lily Tomlin
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it
has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
- - - Douglas Adams
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
- - - Thomas Brackett Reed
Useless as a pulled tooth.
- - - Mary Roberts Rinehart
What has a tiny brain, a big mouth, and an opinion nobody cares about? You!
- - - from "Murphy Brown"
What's on your mind? If you'll forgive the overstatement.
- - - Fred Allen
When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price?
- - - David Letterman
While he was not dumber than an ox he was not any smarter either.
- - - James Thurber
You look into his eyes, and you get the feeling someone else is driving.
- - - David Letterman
You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of
it.
- - - Groucho Marx
Insults about occupation
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
- - - Oscar Wilde
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping
rabbits.
- - - Edith Sitwell
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
- - - Benjamin Disraeli
Abstract art? A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly
bewildered.
- - - Al Capp
An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.
- - - Gene Fowler
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
- - - Mark Twain
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
- - - Fred Allen
I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain
was up.
- - - Groucho Marx
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all of the
hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
- - - John D. Rockefeller
If all the girls who attended the Harvard-Yale game were laid end to end, I
wouldn't be surprised.
- - - Dorothy Parker
If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my
peers.
- - - Sean Penn
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of
negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical
hypochondriacs of history.
- - - Spiro T. Agnew (about the press, 1970)
Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.
- - - Henry VanDyke
Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls.
- - - Jackie Gleason
Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the
ability to write.
- - - A. E. Housman
Reader, suppose you were an idiot; and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I
repeat myself.
- - - Mark Twain
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
- - - -Moses Hadas
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
- - - Lyndon Johnson
This is not a book that should be tossed lightly aside. It should be hurled with
great force.
- - - Dorothy Parker
This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two,
which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its
knees.
- - - Nancy Banks-Smith (review of M.M. Kaye's "The Far Pavillions")
What is art? Prostitution.
Charles Baudelaire
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
- - - Lillian Hellman
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad
breeding, and a vulgar manner.
- - - Aristophanes
Insults about personality
A dork is a dork is a dork.
- - - Judy Markey
Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.
- - - Dennis Healy
Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a
whipped dog.
- - - Harold Wilson
Failure has gone to his head.
- - - Wilson Mizner
God was bored by him.
- - - Victor Hugo
Greater love hath no man than this, to lay down his friends for his life.
- - - Jeremy Thorpe
He could never see a belt without hitting below it.
- - - Margot Asquith
He had delusions of adequacy.
- - - Walter Kerr
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- - - Winston Churchill
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- - - Oscar Wilde
He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
- - - David Lloyd George
He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.
- - - Leonard Louis Levinson
He is a man of splendid abilities but utterly corrupt. He shines and stinks like
rotten mackerel by moonlight.
- - - John Randolph
He is a self-made man and worships his creator.
- - - John Bright
He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.
- - - Herbert Beerbohm Tree
He is as good as his word - and his word is no good.
- - - Seamus MacManus
He is mad, bad and dangerous to know.
- - - Lady Caroline Lamb
He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.
- - - Samuel Johnson
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- - - H. H. Munro
He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.
- - - Paul Keating
He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.
- - - Eugene Field
He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
- - - Henry James
He made enemies as naturally as soap makes suds.
- - - Percival Wilde
He makes a July's day short as December.
- - - William Shakespeare
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
- - - Moliere
He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged.
- - - Simone Signoret
He was a bit like a corkscrew. Twisted, cold and sharp.
- - - Kate Cruise O'Brien
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was
waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
- - - Mark Twain
He was about as useful in a crisis as a sheep.
- - - Dorothy Eden
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
- - - Alexis de Tocqueville
He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
- - - Victor Borge
He was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
- - - William Faulkner
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power
to use them.
- - - Charles Kingsley
He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
- - - Dorothy L. Sayers
He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
- - - Molly Ivins
He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes.
- - - Fred Allen
He was trying to save both his faces.
- - - John Gunther
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
- - - Oscar Wilde
He's so snobbish he has an unlisted zip-code.
- - - Earl Wilson
He's the kind of man who picks his friends - to pieces.
- - - Mae West
He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.
- - - Wilson Mizner
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
- - - Margot Asquith
I will always love the false image I had of you.
- - - Ashleigh Brilliant
I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead
horse.
- - - Woody Allen
In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.
- - - Charles, Count Talleyrand
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty
little beast.
- - - W. S. Gilbert
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
- - - Oscar Wilde
Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is only stupid.
- - - Heinrich Heine
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
- - - Ada Leverson
She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of
people.
- - - Robertson Davies
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water
for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
- - - Charles Talleyrand
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
- - - Margot Asquith
She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation.
- - - Jean Webster
She never was really charming till she died.
- - - Terence
She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.
- - - Michael Arlen
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a
channel swimmer, made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.
- - - W. Somerset Maugham
She proceeds to dip her little fountain-pen filler into pots of oily venom and to
squirt the mixture at all her friends.
- - - Harold Nicholson
She should get a divorce and settle down.
- - - Jack Paar
She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but
peanuts and filberts.
- - - Raymond Chandler
She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
- - - Alexander Woollcott
She's been on more laps than a napkin.
- - - Walter Winchell
She's got such a narrow mind, when she walks fast her earrings bang together.
- - - John Cantu
She's so pure, Moses couldn't even part her knees.
- - - Joan Rivers
She's the kind of woman who climbed the ladder of success - wrong by wrong.
- - - Mae West
She's the sort of woman who lives for others -- you can tell the others by their
hunted expression.
- - - C. S. Lewis
So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
- - - Alan Bennett
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- - - Oscar Wilde
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
- - - Tobias George Smolett
Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee later than others.
- - - Kin Hubbard
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have
mediocrity thrust upon them.
- - - Joseph Heller "Catch-22"
That woman speaks eight languages and can't say "no" in any of them.
- - - Dorothy Parker
The finest woman that ever walked the streets.
- - - Mae West
The greatest thing since they reinvented unsliced bread.
- - - William Keegan
The perfection of rottenness.
- - - William James
The triumph of sugar over diabetes.
- - - George Jean Nathan
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power
of speech.
- - - George Bernard Shaw
There but for the grace of God, goes God.
- - - Winston Churchill
There goes the famous good time that was had by all.
- - - Bette Davis
Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
- - - Jack London
You are so pure in mind and heart,
In aspect, too, so mild,
I wonder that you ever could
Implant your wife with child.
- - - Martial
You had to stand in line to hate him.
- - - Hedda Hopper
You have a good and kind soul. It just doesn't match the rest of you.
- - - Norm Papernick
You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take
the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.
- - - Mark Twain
You're a mouse studying to be a rat.
- - - Wilson Mizner
You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped
coffin.
- - - Joe Orton
Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.
- - - Frederic Raphael
Miscellaneous curmudgeonly comments
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
- - - Louis Nizer
A steaming pile of clich�s and screaming unlikelihoods.
- - - Jessica Winters (about the movie�Hostage)
As entertaining as watching a potato bake.
- - - Marc Savlov (about the movie,�Taxi)
Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.
- - - Groucho Marx
Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
- - - Oscar Levant
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
- - - Winston Churchill
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
- - - Jonathan Swift
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with
laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
- - - Groucho Marx
Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.
- - - Neil Simon
He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
- - - Eddie Cantor
He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
- - - Raymond Chandler
He's completely unspoiled by failure.
- - - Noel Coward
He's liked, but he's not well liked.
- - - Arthur Miller
Here's where we we get out the thesaurus and look up synonyms for "garbage."�
- - - Mike LaSalle (about the movie,�Shanghai Knights)
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
- - - Mae West
I can't believe that out of 100,000 sperm, you were the quickest.
- - - Steven Pearl
I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance
with the cows until you come home.�
- - - Groucho Marx
I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions
in sight.
- - - Mark Twain
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
- - - Mark Twain
I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here.
- - - Stephen Bishop
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
- - - Clarence Darrow
I never liked him and I always will.
- - - Dave Clark
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
- - - Fred Allen
I regard you with an indifference bordering on aversion.
- - - Robert Louis Stevenson
I thought men like that shot themselves.
- - - King George V
I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork.
- - - Irving Brecher (Marx Bros. "At the Circus")
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
- - - Groucho Marx
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- - - Irvin S. Cobb
If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?
- - - Charles Pierce
In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
- - - Ellen Glascow
I've had them both, and I don't think much of either.
- - - Beatrix Lehmann (watching a Hollywood wedding.)
Lacks thrills, narrative, emotion, believability, character development, and,
frankly, watchability.�
- - - Aaron Hillis (about the movie,�Elektra)
Also ...
Devotees of awful filmmaking can't go wrong with this one.�
- - - Michael Wilmington (about the movie,�Elektra)
Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.
- - - Ivy Compton-Burnett
She's good, being gone.
- - - William Shakespeare
Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
- - - William Dean Howells
Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.
- - - Ashleigh Brilliant
The best part of you ran down your mother's legs.
- - - Jackie Gleason
The characters are so flat and the dialogue so dull you expect it to be one of
those movies whose existence is justified by a big final twist. But it's three days
after the screening, and still no twist. Maybe it's coming in the mail?
- - - Kyle Smith (about the movie,�The Jacket)
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- - - Aristotle
The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.
- - - Joseph Stilwell
There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.
- - - Jack E. Leonard
They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he
should be castrated anyway.
- - - Hunter S. Thompson
We've been through so much together, and most of it was your fault.
- - - Ashleigh Brilliant
Well, I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the
wind.
- - - John Ehrlichman
What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank.
- - - Liberace
Why are we honoring this man? Have we run out of human beings?
- - - Milton Berle
Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?
- - - Groucho Marx
You have delighted us long enough.
- - - Jane Austen
You're a good example of why some animals eat their young.
- - - Jim Samuels
You're a parasite for sore eyes.
- - - Gregory Ratoff
PROVERBS A-L
A bad cause requires many words.�
German Proverb
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
�Arab Proverb
A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.
�English Proverb
A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.
�Persian Proverb
A cat has nine lives.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
�German Proverb
A close friend can become a close enemy.�
�Ethiopian Proverb
A closed mouth catches no flies.
�Italian Proverb
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
�German Proverb
A courtyard common to all will be swept by none.
�Chinese Proverb
A dimple on the chin, the devil within.�
�Gaelic Proverb
A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master.�
�Russian Proverb
A drink precedes a story.
�Irish Proverb
A drowning man is not troubled by rain.
�Persian Proverb
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
�William Blake "Proverbs of Hell" (1790)
A forest is in an acorn.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
A friend in need is a friend indeed
�English Proverb
A friend's eye is a good mirror.
�Irish Proverb
A good denial, the best point in law.
�Irish Proverb
A good husband is healthy and absent.
�Japanese Proverb
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.�
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
A healthy man is a successful man.
�French Proverb
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
�French Proverb
A hen is heavy when carried far.
�Irish Proverb
A hound's food is in its legs.
�Irish Proverb
A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel.
�Portuguese Proverb
A hungry man is an angry man.
�English Proverb
A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
�French Proverb
A little too late, is much too late.
�German Proverb
A loan though old is not gift.
�Hungarian Proverb
A lock is better than suspicion.
�Irish Proverb
A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man.
�Turkish Proverb
A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.
�Yiddish Proverb
A man may well bring a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.
�Yiddish Proverb
A monkey never thinks her baby's ugly.
�Haitian Proverb
A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners.
�Irish Proverb
A penny for your thoughts.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
A penny saved is a penny gained.
�Scottish Proverb
A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.
�English Proverb
A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.
�Hungarian Proverb
A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.�
�Chinese proverb
A silent mouth is melodious.
�Irish Proverb
A single Russian hair outweighs half a Pole.�
�Traditional Russian Saying
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall
never sit in.
�Greek Proverb
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
�Bible - Proverbs 15:1.
A son is a son till he gets him a wife,
But a daughter's a daughter the rest of your life.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
�Welsh Proverb
A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.
�Yiddish Proverb
A teacher is better than two books.
�German Proverb
A thief believes everybody steals.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
�Chinese proverb
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
�French Proverb
A trade not properly learned is an enemy.
�Irish Proverb
A tree falls the way it leans.
�Bulgarian Proverb
A white Christmas fills the churchyard.
�French Proverb
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
�Yiddish Proverb
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
�Chinese Proverb
A woman has the form of an angel, the heart of a serpent, and the mind of an ass.
�German Proverb
A worthy woman is far more precious than jewels, strength and dignity are her
clothing.
�Bible - Proverbs 31
Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.
�Danish Proverb
Advice should be viewed from behind.
�Swedish Proverb
Advice when most needed is least heeded.
�English Proverb
After shaking hands with a Greek, count your fingers.�
�Albanian Saying
Age is honorable and youth is noble.
�Irish Proverb
All is well that ends well.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
All things grow with time, except grief.
�Yiddish Proverb
An angry man is not fit to pray.
�Yiddish Proverb
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
An ass in Germany is a professor in Rome.�
�Traditional German Saying
An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.
�Russian Proverb
An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea.
�Turkish Proverb
An ox remains an ox, even if driven to Vienna.
�Hungarian Proverb
And old rat is a brave rat.
�French Proverb
Anger can be an expensive luxury.
�Italian Proverb
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
�Malabar Proverb
Anger without power is folly.
�German Proverb
Appetite comes with eating.
�French Proverb
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
�Bible - Proverbs 26:11
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.�
�Bible - Proverbs 23:7
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
�Bible - Proverbs 25:25.
As mad as a March hare.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
As proud as a peacock.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
As sluttish and slatternly as an Irishwoman bred in France.�
�Traditional Irish Saying
As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, the truest lover may turn into the
worst enemy.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
As the big hound is, so will the pup be.
�Irish Proverb
As we live, so we learn.
�Yiddish Proverb
Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
�Irish Proverb
Beggars shouldn't be choosers.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
Better give a penny then lend twenty.
�Italian Proverb
Better late than never.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
Better no doctor at all than three.
�Polish Proverb
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
�English Proverb
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
�Chinese Proverb
Better wear out shoes than sheets.
�Scottish Proverb
Between the devil and the deep blue sea.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
Beware of a silent dog and still water.
�German Proverb
Black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. (About coffee.)
�Turkish proverb
Blood is thicker than water.
�English Proverb (17th�Century)
Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die.
�Irish Proverb
Butter would not melt in her mouth.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.�
�Indian Proverb
Children are poor men's riches.
�English Proverb
Children should be seen and not heard.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
�English Proverb.
Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight.
�Italian Proverb
Climb mountains to see lowlands.
�Chinese Proverb
Clogs to clogs in three generations.
�English Proverb
Clouds gather before a storm.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.
�Jewish Saying
Curiosity killed the cat.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.
�Japanese Proverb
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
�Chinese Proverb
Death always comes too early or too late
�English Proverb
Death closes all doors.
�English Proverb
Death pays all debts.
�English Proverb
Did hogs feed here or did Lithuanians have a feast here?�
�Traditional Polish Saying
Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky.
�Russian Proverb
Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given
it wings.
�Indian Proverb
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
�African proverb
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new.
�Spanish Proverb
Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills.
�Hebrew Proverb
Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor.
�Oriental Proverb
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
�Chinese Proverb
Don't imitate the fly before you have wings.
�French Proverb
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound.
�Latin Proverb
Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
�Persian Proverb
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his
lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
�Bible - Proverbs 17:28
Even a small thorn causes festering.
�Irish Proverb
Every ass loves to hear himself bray.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
Every cloud has a silver lining.
�English Proverb
Every dog hath its day.
�English Proverb
Every garden may have some weeds.
�English Proverb
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
�Yiddish proverb
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
�Italian Proverb
Everyone pushes a falling fence.
�Chinese Proverb
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
�Ethiopian Proverb
Evil is sooner believed than good.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.
�Eastern Proverb
Fame is a magnifying glass.
�English Proverb
Feather by feather the goose can be plucked.
�French Proverb
Fine feathers make fine birds.
�English Proverb
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
�Spanish Proverb
Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow.
�French Proverb
Fortune is blind, but not invisible.
�French Proverb
Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.
�English Proverb
Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.
�French Proverb
Friendship is a furrow in the sand.
�Tongan Proverb
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat
forever.
�Chinese Proverb
Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.
�Italian Proverb
Give the devil his due.
�English Proverb
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
�French Proverb
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
�Jewish Proverb
God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them.
�German proverb
God heals, and the physician takes the fee.
�French Proverb
God help the rich man, let the poor man beg!
�Old English Proverb
God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves.
�Old English Proverb
Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.
�Chinese Proverb
Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.
�French Proverb
Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.
�Irish Proverb
Good luck beats early rising.
�Irish Proverb
Gray hairs are death's blossoms.
�English Proverb
Half a loaf is better than none.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
Haste makes waste.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
Have a horse of your own and then you may borrow another's.
�Welsh Proverb
He is not wise that is not wise for himself.
�English Proverb
He lied like an eyewitness.�
�Russian Insult
He makes his home where the living is best.
�Latin Proverb
He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
�Jewish Proverb
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
�French Proverb (14th century)
He that is rich will not be called a fool.
�Spanish Proverb
He that lives on hope will die fasting.
�North American Proverb
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
�Bible - Proverbs 28:20.
He that marries for money will earn it.
�American Proverb
He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
�English Proverb
He that seeks trouble never misses.
�English Proverb (17th century)
He that spareth his rod hateth his son.�
�Bible - Proverbs 24
He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock.
�Scottish Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool
forever.
�Chinese proverb
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
�Chinese proverb
He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you
�Irish Proverb
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of
years.
�Chinese Proverb
He who does not know one thing knows another.
�Kenyan Proverb
He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.
�Irish Proverb
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
�Arabian Proverb
He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup.
�German Proverb
He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief.
�German Proverb
He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.
�Spanish Proverb
He who leaps high must take a long run.
�Danish Proverb
He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.
�Chinese Proverb
He who serves two masters has to lie to one.
�Portuguese Proverb
He who sups with the devil has need of a long spoon.
�English Proverb
He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.
�English Proverb
He who would eat in Spain must bring his kitchen along.�
�Traditional German Saying
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
�William Blake "Proverbs of Hell" (1790)
Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.
�Chinese Proverb
Honesty is the best policy.
�English Proverb
How many will listen to the truth when you tell them?
�Yiddish Proverb
Hygiene is two thirds of health.
�Lebanese Proverb
If a man be great, even his dog will wear a proud look.
�Japanese Proverb
If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
�Italian Proverb
If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.
�Yiddish Proverb
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
�Jewish Proverb
If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a
wonderful living.
�Yiddish Proverb
If the patient dies, the doctor has killed him, but if he gets well, the saints
have saved him.
�Italian Proverb
If two men ride a horse, one must ride behind.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant
trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
�Chinese Proverb
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
�Japanese proverb
If you bow at all bow low.
�Chinese Proverb
If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.
�Irish Proverb
If you love him, don't lend him.
�Polish Proverb
If you take big paces you leave big spaces.
�Burmese Proverb
If you want to be criticized, marry.
�Irish Proverb
If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir.
�Romanian Proverb
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
�Chinese Proverb
In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
�Spanish Proverb
In America half an hour is forty minutes.
�German Proverb
In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.
�Greek Proverb
In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
�French Proverb
Instinct is stronger than upbringing.
�Irish Proverb
It is a bad hen that does not scratch herself.
�Irish Proverb
It is a bold mouse that nestles in the cat's ear.
�English Proverb
It is a long road that has no turning.
�Irish Proverb
It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.
�English Proverb (18th century)
It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten.
�Kurdish Proverb
It is better to be born a beggar than a fool.
�Spanish Proverb
It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance.
�Spanish Proverb
It is better to exist unknown to the law.
�Irish Proverb
It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but
death is the best of all. (About laziness)
�Indian Proverb
It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten.
�Danish Proverb
It is not a secret if it is known by three people.
�Irish Proverb
It is not enough to run, one must start in time.
�French Proverb
It is not fish until it is on the bank.
�Irish Proverb
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
�Russian proverb
It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for.
�Irish Proverb
It is the good horse that draws its own cart.
�Irish Proverb
It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal.
�Irish Proverb
It takes time to build castles. Rome wan not built in a day.
�Irish Proverb
It's an ill wind that blows no good.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
It's not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a
while.
�Irish Proverb
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
�Chinese Proverb
Keep a thing for seven years and you'll find a use for it.
�Irish Proverb
Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs.
�English Proverb
Lack of resource has hanged many a person.
�Irish Proverb
Last ship, best ship.
�English Proverb
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
�Chinese Proverb
Lend your money and lose your friend.
�English Proverb
Let sleeping dogs lie.
�English Proverb
Let your heart guide your head in evil matters.
�Spanish Proverb
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
�Indian Proverb
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
�Spanish Proverb
Like a fish out of water.
�Latin Saying
Like a lame man's legs that hang limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.�
�Bible - Proverbs 26:7
Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout.
�Irish Proverb
Little pitchers have big ears.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.
�Spanish Proverb
Look before you leap.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
Look down if you would know how high you stand.
�Yiddish Proverb
Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears.
�Polish Proverb
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.�
�French Proverb
Love me, love my dog.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence.�
�Chinese proverb
Love, pain, and money cannot be kept secret; they soon betray themselves.
�Spanish Proverb
Luck has a slender anchorage.
�English Proverb
PROVERBS M-Z
Mad as a march hare.�
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
Make hay while the sun shines.
�English Proverb
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
�Chinese Proverb
Many a friend was lost through a joke, but none was ever gained so.
�Czech Proverb
Many hands make light work.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
�English Proverb
May the curse of Mary Malone and her nine blind illegitimate children chase you so
far over the hills of Damnation that the Lord himself can't find you with a
telescope.�
�Traditional Irish Curse
May the grass grow at your door and the fox build his nest on your hearthstone.�
May the light fade from your eyes, so you never see what you love.�
May your own blood rise against you, and the sweetest drink you take be the
bitterest cup of sorrow.�
May you die without benefit of clergy;�
May there be none to shed a tear at your grave, and may the hearthstone of hell be
your best bed forever.�
�Traditional Wexford Curse
May you have a bright future - as the chimney sweep said to his son.
�Irish Proverb
May you wander over the face of the earth forever, never sleep twice in the same
bed, never drink water twice from the same well, and never cross the same river
twice in a year.
�Traditional Gypsy Curse
May your every wish be granted.
�Ancient Chinese Curse
May your left ear wither and fall into your right pocket.�
�Traditional Arab Curse
Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
�French Proverb
Mere words do not feed the friars.
�Irish Proverb
More grows in the garden than the gardener knows he has sown.
�Spanish Proverb
More things belong to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.
�Irish Proverb
Necessity is the mother of invention.
�Irish Proverb
Necessity knows no law.
�Irish Proverb
Necessity never made a good bargain.
�North American Proverb
Need teaches a plan.
�Irish Proverb
Never cut what can be untied.
�Portuguese Proverb
Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking.
�English Proverb
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.�
�Scottish Proverb
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today.
�English Proverb
Night is the mother of council.
�Latin Proverb
No man limps because another is hurt.
�Danish Proverb
No man ought to look a given horse in the mouth.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival.
�Turkish Proverb
No time like the present.
�English Proverb
Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
�Chinese Proverb
Not wine...men intoxicate themselves; Not vice...men entice themselves.
�Chinese Proverb
Nothing dries sooner than tears.
�Latin Proverb
Nothing is as burdensome as a secret.
�French Proverb
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
One beggar at the door is enough.
�French Proverb
One cannot shoe a running horse.
�Dutch Proverb
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
�English Proverb (17th century)
One flower will not make a garland.
�French Proverb
One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.
�Chinese Proverb
One good turn deserves another.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.�
�Chinese Proverb
One of these day is none of these days.
�English Proverb
One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.
�Swedish Proverb
One swallow maketh not a summer.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
One woman never praises another.
�Estonian Proverb
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches
�English Proverb
Out of the frying pan into the fire.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.
�French Proverb
Patience is poultice for all wounds.
�Irish Proverb
Patience is the best medicine.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
People live in each other's shelter.
�Irish Proverb
Pigs might fly, but they are most unlikely birds.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.�
�Russian proverb
Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.
�English Proverb
Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
�Korean Proverb
Practice makes perfect.
�English Proverb
Praise the young and they will blossom
�Irish Proverb
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
�Bible - Proverbs 16:18
Procrastination is the thief of time.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
Public before private and country before family.
�Chinese Proverb
Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat.
�Irish Proverb
Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.
�Irish Proverb
Rags to riches to rags.
�Lancastrian Proverb
Rain beats a leopard's skin, but it does not wash off the spots.
�Ashanti Proverb
Rats desert a sinking ship.
�French Proverb
Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.
�French Proverb
Roasted pigeons will not fly into one's mouth.
�Dutch Proverb
Rome was not built in a day.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
�English Proverb
Seek counsel of him who makes you weep, and not of him who makes you laugh.
�Arabic Proverb
Set a beggar on horseback, and he 'll out ride the Devil.
�German Proverb
Set a thief to catch a thief.
�English Proverb
Silence was never written down.
�Italian Proverb
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
�Spanish Proverb
Sit a beggar at your table and he will soon put his feet on it.
�Russian Proverb
Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.
�English Proverb
Small children give you headache; big children heartache.
�Russian Proverb
Some people are masters of money, and some its slaves.
�Russian Proverb
Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time
I am being carried on great wings across the sky.�
�Ojibway Saying
Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
�English Proverb
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
�English Proverb (17th century)
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
�Slovenian Proverb
Stars are not seen by sunshine.
�Spanish Proverb
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
�Bible - Proverbs 9:17.
Sweet is the wine but sour is the payment.
�Irish Proverb
Take heed of enemies reconciled, and of meat twice boiled.
�English Proverb.
Take thy thoughts to bed with thee, for the morning is wiser than the evening.
�Russian Proverb
Talk of the devil and he is sure to appear.
�English Proverb
Tell me who you live with and I will tell you who you are.
�Spanish Proverb
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
�Chinese Proverb
The best advice is found on the pillow.
�Danish Proverb
The best thing about a man is his dog.�
�French Proverb
The big thieves hang the little ones.
�Czech proverb
The church is near but the road is icy; the bar is far away but I'll walk
carefully.�
�Russian proverb
The comforter's head never aches.
�Italian Proverb
The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
�English Proverb
The day will come when the cow will have use for her tail.
�Irish Proverb
The devil looks after his own.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
The devil seduced Eve in Italian. Eve mislead Adam in Bohemian. The Lord scolded
them both in German. Then the angel drove them from paradise in Hungarian.�
�Traditional Polish Saying
The fat is in the fire.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
�Chinese Proverb
The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.
�Yiddish Proverb
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
The great thieves lead away the little thieves.
�French Proverb
The green new broom sweepeth clean.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
The hole is more honorable than the patch.
�Irish Proverb
The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
�William Blake "Proverbs of Hell" (1790)
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.�
�Yiddish Proverb
The jay bird don't rob his own nest.
�West Indies Proverb
The light heart lives long.
�Irish Proverb
The man who does not love a horse cannot love a woman.
�Spanish Proverb
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
�Chinese Proverb
The man with the boots does not mind where he places his foot.
�Irish Proverb
The mills of God grind slowly but they grind finely.
�Irish Proverb
The moon is made of a green cheese.�
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
The more the merrier.�
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
The morning is wiser than the evening.
�Russian Proverb
The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.
�Japanese Proverb
The night rinses what the day has soaped.
�Swiss Proverb
The only good thing that comes from the east is the sun.�
�Traditional Portuguese Saying
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
�Chinese proverb
The pine stays green in winter...Wisdom in hardship.
�Chinese Proverb
The raggy colt often made a powerful horse.
�Irish Proverb
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
�Japanese proverb
The right man comes at the right time.
�Italian Proverb
The road to a friend's house is never long.
�Danish proverb
The Russian knows the way, yet he asks for directions.�
�Traditional German Saying
The sea has an enormous thirst and an insatiable appetite.
�French Proverb
The silent dog is the first to bite.
�German Proverb
The smallest thing outlives the human being.
�Irish Proverb
The Spaniard is a bad servant but a worse master.�
�Traditional English Saying
The sun will set without thy assistance.
�Hebrew Proverb
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
�French Proverb
The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.�
�Russian proverb
The tide tarrieth for no man.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
The tongue is more to be feared than the sword.
�Japanese Proverb
The tongue like a sharp knife...Kills without drawing blood.
�Chinese Proverb
The truth is not always what we want to hear.
�Yiddish Proverb
The turtle lays thousands of eggs without anyone knowing, but when the hen lays an
egg, the whole country is informed.
�Malay Proverb
The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches.
�Irish Proverb
The well fed does not understand the lean.
�Irish Proverb
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
�Arabian Proverb
The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher.
�Chinese Proverb
The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet.
�Persian Proverb
The wolf loses his teeth, but not his inclinations.
�Spanish Proverb
The work praises the man.
�Irish Proverb
The world is a rose: smell it and pass it on to your friends.�
�Persian Proverb
The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey
�Irish Proverb
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.
�Chinese Proverb
There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
�French Proverb
There are only two types of Chinese -- those who give bribes and those who take
them.�
�Russian Proverb
There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
�French Proverb.
There is but one good mother-in-law and she is dead.
�English Proverb
There is honor even among thieves.
�English Proverb
There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave.
�Irish Proverb
There is no fireside like your own fireside
�Irish Proverb
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
�Irish Proverb
There is no need like the lack of a friend.
�Irish Proverb
There is no strength without unity.
�Irish Proverb
There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel.
�Russian Proverb
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
�Greek Proverb
They who love most are least valued.
�English Proverb
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
�William Blake "Proverbs of Hell" (1790)
Think with the wise but walk with the vulgar.
�German Proverb
Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.
�Irish Proverb
Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground.
�Malay Proverb
Three diseases without shame: Love, itch and thirst.
�Irish Proverb
Three Spaniards, four opinions.
�Spanish Proverb
Time is a great story teller.
�Irish Proverb
Time trieth truth.
�English Proverb
To be rich is not everything, but it certainly helps.
�Yiddish Proverb
To deny all, is to confess all.
�Spanish Proverb
To leave is to die a little.
�French Proverb
To lend is to buy a quarrel.
�Indian Proverb
To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.
�English Proverb (18th century)
To teach is to learn.
�Japanese Proverb
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.�
�Latin Proverb
To whom you tell your secrets, to him you resign your liberty.
�Spanish Proverb
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
�North American Saying
Tomorrow is a new day.
�English Proverb
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
�Spanish Proverb
Tomorrow never comes.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
Trouble rides a fast horse.
�Italian Proverb
True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.�
�Hindustani Proverb
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
�Old Muslim Proverb
Truth and oil always come to the surface.
�Spanish Proverb
Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments.
�German Proverb
Truth is the safest lie.
�Jewish Proverb
Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.
�Bible - Proverbs 12:19
Truth will be out.
�Latin Proverb
Two heads are better than one.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
Two shorten the road.
�Irish Proverb
Two thirds of the work is the semblance.
�Irish Proverb
Unless you enter the tiger's den you cannot take the cubs.
�Japanese Proverb
Visit your aunt, but not every day of the year.
�Spanish Proverb
Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said to the young crab.
�Irish Proverb
Want a thing long enough and you don't
�Chinese Proverb
War is death's feast.
�George Herbert "Outlandish Proverbs"
Water for oxen, wine for kings.
�Spanish Proverb
We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.
�Scottish Proverb
Went in one ear and out the other.�
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.
�Spanish Proverb
What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
�Swedish proverb
What one knows it is sometimes useful to forget.
�Latin Proverb
What you can not avoid, welcome.
�Chinese Proverb
When a father helps a son, both smile; but when a son must help his father, both
cry.
�Jewish Proverb
When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.
�Irish Proverb
When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.
�Irish Proverb
When fortune knocks upon the door open it widely.
�Spanish Proverb
When ill luck falls asleep, let none wake her.
�Italian Proverb
When its time has arrived, the prey becomes the hunter.
�Persian Proverb
When one dog barks another will join it.
�Latin Proverb
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
�Ethiopian proverb
When the apple is ripe it will fall.
�Irish Proverb
When the drop (drink) is inside, the sense is outside.
�Irish Proverb
When the iron is hot, strike.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
When the liquor was gone the fun was gone.
�Irish Proverb
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
�Nigerian Proverb
When the sun shineth, make hay.
�John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.
�English Proverb
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
�African Proverb
When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.
�Chinese Proverb
When we sing everybody hears us, when we sigh nobody hears us.
�Russian Proverb
When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone.
�Russian Proverb
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when
you die, the world cries and you rejoice.�
�Indian proverb
When your enemy falls, don't rejoice -- but don't pick him up either.
�Yiddish Proverb
Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is
safety.
�Bible - Proverbs 11:14.
Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth.
�Irish Proverb
Where there is love there is pain.
�Spanish Proverb
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
�Bible - Proverbs 29:18
Where there's music there can be love.
�French Proverb
While the cat's away, the mice can play.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
�German proverb
Who knows most speaks least.
�Spanish Proverb
Who lies with dogs shall rise up with fleas.
�Latin Proverb
Wine divulges truth.
�Irish Proverb
Witches and harlots come out at night.
�English Proverb
With foxes we must play the fox.
�Proverb of Unknown Origin
With money you are a dragon; with no money, a worm.
�Chinese Proverb
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he
shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from
hell.
�Bible - Proverbs 23:13-14.
Without justice, courage is weak.
�North American Proverb
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
�Greek proverb
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is but a vision. But today well lived makes
every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look
well, therefore, to This Day.
�Sanskrit Proverb
You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
�Irish Proverb
You cannot reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears.
�Greek Proverb
You cannot unscramble eggs.
�North American Proverb
You can't hatch chickens from fried eggs.
�Dutch Proverb
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.�
�North American Proverb
You must live with a person to know a person. If you want to know me come and live
with me.
�Irish Proverb
Young men may die, old men must.
�English Proverb
Young wood makes a hot fire.
�Greek Proverb
Your health comes first; you can always hang yourself later.
�Yiddish Proverb
Your neighbor's apples are the sweetest.
�Yiddish Proverb
Youth does not mind where it sets its foot.
�Irish Proverb
Youth sheds many a skin. The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever.
�Irish Proverb
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
�Irish Proverb
They're mean to me
I'm not Jacko, I'm Jackson... 'Wacko Jacko' - Where did that come from? Some
English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that
to me, it's not nice.
- - Michael Jackson
I'm not an Uncle Tom. . .. I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't
like it, get over it.
- - Clarence Thomas
People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a
self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
- - Robert Redford
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me,
who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
- - Imelda Marcos
I can't get no respect.
- - Rodney Dangerfield
They have vilified me, they have crucified me, yes, they have even criticized me.
- - Richard J. Daley
Just because I have my standards, they think I'm a bitch.
- - Diana Ross
They're unfair to me
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson.
What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
- - Christian Slater
If I walked on water people would say I couldn't swim.
- - John Turner
The truth is, I've made about 30 movies in 30 years, and I've been criticized for
30 years for not making more movies.
- - Dustin Hoffman
If I would believe what I read about myself, I would hate my guts too.
- - Zsa Zsa Gabor
I hate my job
I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.
- - Mick Jagger
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets
you oblivion.
- - Richard M. Nixon, 1988
It's a drag having to wear socks during matches, because the tan, like, stops at
the ankles. I can never get my skin, like, color coordinated.
- - Monica Seles
Sometimes I feel like an old hooker.
- - Cher
I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes- and six months later you
have to start all over again.
- - Joan Rivers
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you $50,000 for a kiss and 50 cents for your
soul.
- - Marilyn Monroe
We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial
royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.�
-- Nicolas Cage
My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one
of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was
paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.
- - James Woods
Life is tough
Everything I want is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
- - Alexander Woollcott
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
- - Robert Redford
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun
at all.
- - Woody Allen
When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my
private life.
- - Gloria Swanson
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
- - Bette Midler
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
- - Andy Rooney
Miscellaneous Complaints
Don't tell anyone. I'm supposed to be dumb.
- - Former supermodel Helena Christensen admits she can speak six languages
As far as I am concerned, being any gender is a drag.
- - Patti Smith
I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that
spiders bother some people.
- - Boy George
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there,
it's so petty.
- - Imelda Marcos
Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there
is no oil.
- - Golda Meir
I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put
it out.
- - Dolly Parton
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has
been my misfortune to hear.
- - Frank Sinatra
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk
for people who can't read.
--Frank Zappa
What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
- - Phyllis Diller
And finally
Somebody's boring me I think it's me.�
- - -Dylan Thomas
You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last
press conference.
- - Richard Nixon, 1962
We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock,
get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody
clock.�
- - - - Dave Allen
When you reach forty you can�t do anything every day.
- - - - Henry �Hank� Aaron
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past...
And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
- - - - Jean Anouilh
I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons
illegitimate.
- - - - Lady Nancy Astor
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your
age.
- - - - Lucille Ball
If I were younger, I'd know more.
- - - - James Barrie
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of dreams.
- - - - John Barrymore, "Good Night, Sweet Prince" 1943
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
- - - - Bernard M. Baruch
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.
The last of life, for which the first was made.
- - - - Robert Browning �'Rabbi Ben Ezra�
What Youth deemed crystal,
Age finds out was dew.
- - - - Robert Browning
Years steal
Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb,
And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
- - - - George Gordon, Lord Byron �Childe Harold's Pilgrimage�
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you
have at fifty.
- - - - Coco Chanel
I prefer old age to the alternative.
- - - - Maurice Chevalier
One keeps on forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
- - - - Colette
Old age is no place for sissies.
- - - - Bette Davis
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
- - - - Fran�ois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
I grow old . . . I grow old . . .
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
- - - - T. S. Eliot �The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock�
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
- - - - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If youth but knew; if age but could.
- - - - Henri Estienne
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty the wit; at forty the judgment.
- - - - Benjamin Franklin
Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
- - - - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.
- - - - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
- - - - Bob Hope
After a man passes sixty, his mischief is mainly in his head.
- - - - Edgar Watson Howe
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them,
acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.�
- - - - Philip Larkin
I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it�s all a little bit lower.
- - - - Gypsy Rose Lee
For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars invisible by day.
- - - - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Morituri Salutamus" 1875
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
- - - - Bette Midler
At age fifty, every man has the face he deserves.
- - - - George Orwell
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don�t mind, it doesn�t matter.
- - - - Satchel Paige
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?
- - - - Satchel Paige
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It�s more often a succession of jerks.
- - - - Jean Rhys
Old Age: First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull
your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.
- - - - Leo Rosenberg
Some reckon their age by years,
Some measure their life by art;
But some tell their days by the flow of their tears
And their lives by the moans of their hearts.
- - - - Abram Joseph Ryan
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
- - - - George Bernard Shaw �Maxims for Revolutionists�
When men reach their sixties and retire they go to pieces. Women just go right on
cooking.
- - - - Gail Sheehy
Said the little boy, �Sometimes I drop my spoon.�
Said the old man, �I do that too.�
The little boy whispered, �I wet my pants.�
�I do that too,� laughed the old man.�
Said the little boy, �I often cry.�
The old man nodded, �So do I.�
�But worst of all,� said the boy, �it seems
Grown-ups don�t pay attention to me.�
And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.
�I know what you mean,� said the old man.
- - - - Shel Silverstein
Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
- - - - Logan Pearsall Smith
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
- - - - Leon Trotsky
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting out
ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
- - - - Samuel Ullman
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is
running the country.�
- - - - Kurt Vonnegut�
Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- - - - Edward Young
Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
- - - - Edward Young �Night Thoughts�
We have a saying in the movement that we don't trust anybody over thirty.
- - - - Jack Weinberg
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know
everything.
- - - - Oscar Wilde
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
~ ~ ~Aesop
People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.
~ ~ ~Lady Nancy Astor
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
~ ~ ~Buddha
If there is righteousness in the heart,
there will be beauty in the character.
If there is beauty in the character,
there will be harmony in the home.
If there is harmony in the home,
there will be order in the nation.
When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.
~ ~ ~Chinese Proverb
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with
diamonds.
~ ~ ~Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.
~ ~ ~Eve Denise Curie
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be
keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events
in the political field.
~ ~ ~Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through
understanding.
~ ~ ~Albert Einstein
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain
them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
~ ~ ~Andr� Gide
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better
get out of their way and let them have it.
~ ~ ~Dwight David Eisenhower
Buried was the bloody hatchet.
Buried was the dreadful war club;
Buried were all warlike weapons,
And the war-cry was forgotten.
There was peace among the nations.
~ ~ ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Hiawatha"
... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher
passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to
fight for peace and die for peace.
~ ~ ~Mary Heaton Vorse "A Footnote to Folly"
Peace hath higher tests of manhood
Than battle ever knew.
~ ~ ~John Greenleaf Whittier
�City Quotes
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
- - - Abraham Cowley "The Garden"
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter
with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life
of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university,
a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great
laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries
that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women
and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.
- - - Margaret Mead
The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
- - - Desmond Morris
In the morning the city
Spreads its wings
Making a song
In stone that sings.
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will
inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't
luckily have to bother about that.
- - - - Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
Better to die a thousand deaths than wound my honor.
- - - - Joseph Addison
Death should not be seen as the end but as a very effective way to cut down
expenses.
- - - - Woody Allen
I answer the heroic question "Death, where is they sting?" with "It is here in my
heart and mind and memories."
- - - - Maya Angelou
We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been
advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.
- - - - Yasser Arafat
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched
from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
- - - - Elizabeth Arden "The Life of the Mind"
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
- - - - Richard Bach
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in
children is increased with tales, so is the other.�
- - - - Francis Bacon
If it's natural to kill why do men have to go into training to learn how?
- - - - Joan Baez
But, O Sarah! if the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those
they loved, I shall always be near you; In the gladdest days and in the darkest
nights . . . always, always, and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it
shall be my breath, as the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my
spirit passing by. Sarah do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for thee,
for we shall meet again.
- - - - Major Sullivan Ballou, to his wife, a week before his death in 1861
Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies," there is a little fairy
somewhere that falls down dead.
- - - - James Matthew Barrie
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
- - - - James Matthew Barrie
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of
the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.�
- - - - Henry Ward Beecher
Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead.
Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.�
- - - - Bhagavad Gita
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
- - - - Bible - 1 Corinthians 55
Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.�
- - - - Bible - Genesis 3:19
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; A
time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck that which
is planted.
- - - - Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil:
for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
- - - - Bible - Psalms 23:4
Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a
retroactive effect.
- - - - Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in
earnest.
- - - - Bion
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks
towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw
nigh.�
- - - - Robert Bolt
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
- - - - Erma Bombeck
It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about
$3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars; to $5,000 in the American Civil War; and
then to $21,000 per man in World War I. Estimates for the future wars indicate that
it may cost the warring countries not less than $50,000 for each man killed.
- - - - Senator Homer T. Bone
In the midst of life we are in death.�
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the
Resurrection into eternal life . . . .
- - - - Book of Common Prayer "The Burial of the Dead" (1662)
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
- - - - Dion Boucicault
We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. � You might say those are the
only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.
- - - - William Boyd
You can't get out of life alive.
- - - - Les Brown
The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
- - - - Rita Mae Brown
I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.
- - - - Jimmy Buffet
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived
completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct
response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
- - - - Julie Burchill
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own
death.
- - - - Samuel Butler
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's
deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death
penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at
which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward,
had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in
private life.
- - - - Albert Camus
Rest is for the dead.
- - - - Thomas Carlyle
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave,
something else happens.
- - - - Lillian Carter
In the stars is written the death of every man.
- - - - Geoffrey Chaucer
Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment;
constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we
must be inflexible.
- - - - Winston Churchill
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only
be killed once, but in politics many times.
- - - - Winston Churchill
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
- - - - Winston Churchill
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me,
without hurrying.
- - - - Jean Cocteau
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes
prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they
are afraid to live.
- - - - Charles Caleb Colton "The Lacon" (1829)
Our life is made by the death of others.�
- - - - Leonardo da Vinci
If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.
- - - - Clarence Day
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal;
that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings
forth but to that which kills.
- - - - Simone de Beauvoir "The Second Sex"
Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he
kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to
defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills
for the sake of killing.
- - - - Josef de Maistre
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of
robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from
that to incivility and procrastination.
- - - - Thomas De Quincey
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay,
more present than the living man.
- - - - Antoine de Saint �xup�ry
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice, in the highest extreme.
- - - - Daniel Defoe
Unable are the Loved to die�
For Love is Immortality.�
- - - - Emily Dickinson
No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a
part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well
as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were;
any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore
never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
- - - - John Donne "Devotions XVII"
Men create war to compete with women, who create life.
- - - - Sharon Doubiago
The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it
is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for
the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.
- - - - Tyron Edwards
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but
an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
- - - - Tryon Edwards
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had
our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have
had our day.�
- - - - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we
exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.
- - - - Epicurus
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy
Sunday afternoon.
- - - - Susan Ertz "Anger in the Sky" (1943)
What greater pain could mortals have than this:�
To see their children dead before their eyes?�
- - - - Euripedes
He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
- - - - Giovanni Falcone
Death is an eternal sleep.�
- - - - Joseph Fouch�
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against
others redirected upon himself.
- - - - Sigmund Freud "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" (1920)
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
- - - - Christian Furchtegott Gellert
We who are left how shall we look again�
Happily on the sun or feel the rain�
Without remembering how they who went�
Ungrudgingly and spent�
Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?�
- - - - Wilfred Wilson Gibson
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world
without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
- - - - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman"
When we can't dream any longer we die.
- - - - Emma Goldman
Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating
death: there is no way out.
- - - - Agustin Gomez-Arcos "A Bird Burned Alive"
Success has killed more men than bullets.
- - - - Texas Guinan
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
- - - - Bishop Hall
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a
fulfillment.
- - - - Dag Hammarskjold
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human right.
- - - - Orrin Hatch
On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is
not: The expert is the one who is still alive.
- - - - Donal Henahan
It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for
life.
- - - - Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stone, December 2, 1976
War is death's feast.
- - - - George Herbert "Outlandish Proverbs"
Only the young die good.
- - - - Oliver Herford
If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the
smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the
right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.
- - - - Adolf Hitler
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the
affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and
transformation.�
- - - - Hermann Hesse
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
- - - - Herbert Hoover
Tis after death that we measure men.
- - - - James Barron Hope
Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.
- - - - Gerard Manley Hopkins "No Worst, There is None"
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens
will occasionally kill theirs.
- - - - Elbert Hubbard
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have
yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible,
humane and scientific, eh?�
- - - - Aldous Huxley
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
- - - - Delores Ibarruri
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor
station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.�
- - - - John James Ingalls
Death is psychologically as important as birth . . . Shrinking away from it is
something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
- - - - Carl Gustav Jung, January 16, 1961
Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is
abominable.
- - - - Immanuel Kant
So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')
- - - - Thomas A. Kempis
In the long run, we are all dead.
- - - - John Maynard Keynes
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule beings.
- - - - Soren Kierkegaard
If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
- - - - Martin Luther King, June 23, 1963
Every soul must taste of death.
- - - - Koran
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a
million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear
into the endless night forever.
- - - - Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross, "On Death and Dying," 1969
I often say a great doctor kills more people than a great general.
- - - - G. W. Leibniz
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
- - - - Rush Limbaugh
He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
- - - - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of
decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth
that he hath it.
- - - - Charles Mackay
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.�
- - - - Thomas Mann
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing
whatsoever to do with it.
- - - - William Somerset Maugham
If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded
at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.
- - - - Don Marquis "The Almost Perfect State"
...it is only death which is hopeless.
- - - - Maria McIntosh
No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him
commit suicide for her.
- - - - H. L. Mencken
A suicide kills two people . . . that's what it's for.
- - - - Arthur Miller "After the Fall"
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
- - - - John Milton "Paradise Lost"
Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that
it may not be the greatest good.�
- - - - William Mitford
We die only once, and for such a long time!
- - - - Moliere
The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.
- - - - Ferenc Moln�r
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
- - - - Ashley Montagu
A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.
- - - - Mother Teresa
I desire to go to Hell, not to Heaven. In Hell I shall enjoy the company of popes,
kings and princes, but in Heaven are only beggars, monks, hermits and apostles.
- - - - Niccolo Machiavelli
Abortion is the greatest destroyer of peace because if a mother can kill her own
child, what is left for me to kill you, and you to kill me? There is nothing
between.
- - - - Mother Theresa
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I
have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and
truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me,
but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously
granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the
door to our true happiness.
- - - - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
- - - - Edvard Munch
Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.
- - - - Bill Musselman
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is
but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
- - - - Vladimir Nabokov
Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
- - - - Holly Near
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own
free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness,
consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking
is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
- - - - Friedrich Nietzsche "Expeditions of an Untimely Man"
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
- - - - Anais Nin
During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the
supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How
come the government never does anything like this with lawyers?
- - - - P. J. O'Rourke
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of
death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much
more effective.�
- - - - P. J. O'Rourke
The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a
funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and
loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.
- - - - P. J. O'Rourke "Modern Manners"
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another
still.
- - - - William Penn "Some Fruits of Solitude"
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include
yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
- - - - Pope John Paul II, London, 9 June 1991
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling--my darling--my life and my bride,
In her sepulcher there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
- - - - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabell Lee"
I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability,
frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is
somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.
- - - - Jack Pollock "Dear M: Letters from a Gentleman of Excess" (1989)
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine
that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it
has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same
afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in
advance.�
- - - - Marcel Proust
As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the
earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all
gathered into the cold tomb.
- - - - Francis Quarles
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
- - - - Ronald Reagan
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror.
Kill everyone, and you are a god.
- - - - Jean Rostand
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
- - - - Eleanor Roosevelt
My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands. Two of them were
just napping.
- - - - Rita Rudner
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
- - - - A. Sachs
On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your
dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores
and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of
mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round
you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as
he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is
leaving and whom you cannot detain.�
- - - - Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay,
more present than the living man.�
- - - - Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry
Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die
somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything
except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of
flowers on your stomach on Sunday and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you are
dead? Nobody.
- - - - J. D. Salinger
Love makes us poets and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
- - - - George Santayana
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness, of a
belief.
- - - - Arthur Schnitzler
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh
morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little dearth.
- - - - Arthur Schopenhauer
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; . . . that suicide is
wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every
man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
- - - - Arthur Schopenhauer
Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
- - - - Walter Scott
Men have died from time to time, and the worms have eaten 'em, but not for love.
- - - - William Shakespeare "As You Like It"
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste death but once.
Of all the wonders that I have yet heard, It seems to me most strange that men
should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it come.
- - - - William Shakespeare "Julius Caesar"
Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs.
- - - - William Shakespeare "King Richard II"
Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart,
and bids it break.
- - - - William Shakespeare "Macbeth"
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To
the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The
way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor
player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It
is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
- - - - William Shakespeare "Macbeth"
... To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there 's the rub: For in
that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal
coil, Must give us pause: there 's the respect That makes calamity of so long
life ...�
- - - - William Shakespeare "Hamlet"
Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This
sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in
fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be
imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The
pendant world.
- - - - William Shakespeare "Measure for Measure"
O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black
stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
- - - - William Shakespeare "The Rape of Lucrece"
When he shall die Take him and cut him in little stars And he will make the face of
heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to
the garish sun.
- - - - William Shakespeare "Romeo and Juliet"
And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of
right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that
can understand.
- - - - George Bernard Shaw "Caesar and Cleopatra"
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
- - - - George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
- - - - George Bernard Shaw
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but
similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give
it.
- - - - George Bernard Shaw
Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.
- - - - Wilfrid Sheed
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform:
he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
- - - - Percy Bysshe Shelley "A Declaration of Rights" (Dublin, 1812)
There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
- - - - Agnes Smedley
Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no
consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration
of the soul from one place to another.
- - - - Socrates
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
- - - - Bruce Springsteen
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same
impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
- - - - Robert Louis Stevenson
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left
undone.�
- - - - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that
Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.
- - - - Emauel Swedenborg "Heaven and Hell" (1758)
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death
should have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
- - - - Jonathan Swift (1706)
Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and
drive themselves to death with huge cars.
- - - - Hunter S. Thompson
But what is all this fear of and opposition to oblivion? What is the matter with
the soft darkness, the dreamless sleep?
- - - - James Thurber
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will
go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
- - - - James Thurber
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no
right to say life is unbearable.
- - - - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1898)
If the antiabortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy
theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into
lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine.
- - - - Michael Jay Tucker
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
- - - - Mark Twain
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
- - - - Miguel de Unamuno
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
- - - - Percival Arland Ussher
To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
- - - - Gore Vidal (1968)
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
- - - - Leonardo da Vinci
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in
large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- - - - Voltaire "War"
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and
because it has fresh peaches in it.
- - - - Alice Walker
The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they
have given away.�
- - - - DeWitt Wallace
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about
after dinner.
- - - - Oscar Wilde
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even
while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
- - - - Tennessee Williams "The Rose Tattoo"
Funerals are pretty compared with death.
- - - - Tennessee Williams "A Streetcar Named Desire"
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
- - - - Oscar Wilde
Never murder a man who is committing suicide.
- - - - Woodrow Wilson
Death observes no ceremony.
- - - - John Wise
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at
the right or wrong end of the gun.
- - - - P. G. Wodehouse
Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
- - - - Virginia Woolf
All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
- - - - Edward Young
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me
there.
- - - - Edward Young
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, as tapers waste the moment they take
fire.
- - - - Edward Young
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
~ ~ ~ Douglas Adams
Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.
~ ~ ~ Minna Antrim "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"
A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
~ ~ ~ Lady Nancy Astor "My Two Countries"
You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough
to get elected.
~ ~ ~ Gerald Barzan
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
~ ~ ~ Josh Billings
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
~ ~ ~ Nicholas Boileau
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
~ ~ ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him,
and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
~ ~ ~ Samuel Butler
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
~ ~ ~ Colette
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
~ ~ ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Fools are wise until they speak.
~ ~ ~ Randle Cotgrave
Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
~ ~ ~ Frank Dane
A man who cannot reason is a fool, a man who will not reason is a bigot, and a man
who dare not reason is a slave.
~ ~ ~ William Drummond
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified
surprise.
~ ~ ~ John Dryden "Cymon and Iphigenia"
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen
and philosophers and divines.
~ ~ ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson "Self-Reliance"
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than
others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool
if he doesn't.
~ ~ ~ William Faulkner
If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
~ ~ ~ Anatole France
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
~ ~ ~ Fran�ois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.
~ ~ ~ Benjamin Franklin
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
~ ~ ~ Benjamin Franklin
Fools' names, like fools' faces, Are often seen in public places.
~ ~ ~ Thomas Fuller
Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools.
~ ~ ~ Thomas Fuller
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
~ ~ ~ George Gordon, Lord Byron "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers"
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
~ ~ ~ Baltasar Gracian
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
~ ~ ~ Heinrich Heine
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
~ ~ ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to
manage a fool.
~ ~ ~ Rudyard Kipling "Plain Tales from the Hills"
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they
are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and
power for taking advantage of it.�
~ ~ ~ William Lamb Melbourne
The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
~ ~ ~ Larry Niven
The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's
playing.
~ ~ ~ Fritz Peris
The first of April, some do say,�
Is set apart for All Fools' Day.�
But why the people call it so,�
Nor I, nor they themselves do know.�
But on this day are people sent�
On purpose for pure merriment.�
~ ~ ~ Poor Robin's Almanac (1790)
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
~ ~ ~ Alexander Pope
Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels
fear to tread.
~ ~ ~ Alexander Pope "An Essay on Criticism"
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool: But you yourself may
serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
~ ~ ~ Matthew Prior
He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool - avoid him! He who
knows and knows not that he knows is asleep - waken him! He who knows not and knows
that he knows not wants a beating - beat him! But he who knows and knows that he
knows is a wise man - know him.
~ ~ ~ Proverb
The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the
skillful direct it.
~ ~ ~ Jeanne-Marie Roland
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
~ ~ ~ George Bernard Shaw "John Bull's Other Island"
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power,
corrupt power.
~ ~ ~ George Bernard Shaw
A fool and his words are soon parted.
~ ~ ~ William Shenstone
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
~ ~ ~ Charles Steinmetz
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and
then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
~ ~ ~ Jonathan Swift "Cadenus and Vanessa"
Without fools the rest of us could not succeed.
~ ~ ~ Mark Twain
Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each
other.
~ ~ ~ Oscar Wilde
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's
start with typewriters.�
~ ~ ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
~ ~ ~ Edward Young
If I had my life to live over again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
- - -�Tallulah Bankhead
If I had my whole life to live over again, I don't think I'd have the strength.
- - -�Flip Wilson
If I had my life to live over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
- - -�Nadine Stair
Life's a journey, not a destination.
- - -�aerosmith "Amazing"
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
- - -�Richard Bach
The greatest pleasure in life is to do what people say you cannot do.
- - -�Walter Bagehot
If I had my life to live over again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
- - -�Tallulah Bankhead
Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing
his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would
get well if he were by the window.
- - -�Charles Baudelaire
Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
- - -�Alan Bennett
In the midst of life we are in death. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust;
in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection into eternal life . . . .
- - -�Book of Common Prayer "The Burial of the Dead" (1662)
Life itself is a quotation.
- - -�Jorge Luis Borges
The Internet is so big, so powerful and so pointless that for some people it is a
complete substitute for life.
- - -�Andrew Brown
You can't get out of life alive.
- - -�Les Brown
Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
- - -�Thomas Browne
Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
- - -�Pearl S. Buck
One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
- - -�Thomas Carlyle
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- - -�Winston Churchill
Life is nothing without friendship.
- - -�Cicero
Life is a horizontal fall.
- - -�Jean Cocteau
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a
buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and
loses itself in the sunset.
- - -�Crowfoot (Blackfoot warrior and orator 1821-1890)
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the
greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are
only dreams.
- - -�Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
- - -�William Cowper
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
- - -�Miguel de Unamuno
Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
- - -�Emily Dickinson
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
- - -�Emily Dickinson "poem no. 1741"
There are many here among us
who think life is but a joke
but you and I, we've been through that;�
this is not our fate.�
Let us not speak falsely now, the hour's getting late.
- - -�Bob Dylan "All Along the Watchtower"
My life is light, waiting for the death wind,�
Like a feather on the back of my hand.
- - -�T. S. Eliot
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand;
the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
- - -�George Elliot
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
- - -�Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is eating us up. We all shall be fables presently. Keep cool: it will be all
one a hundred years hence.
- - -�Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.
- - -�Erich Fromm "Man for Himself"
Life is a bitch, and then it has puppies.
- - -�Adrienne E. Gusoff
Life is a bitch, and then you marry one.
- - -�Unknown
Life is a jest, and all things show it;�
I thought so once, and now I know it.
- - -�John Gay (epitaph)
Life is the childhood of eternity.
- - -�Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
- - -�Lewis Grizzard
Life is made up of marble and mud.
- - -�Nathaniel Hawthorne
A bit beyond perception's reach
I sometimes believe I see
that Life is two locked boxes, each
containing the other's key.
- - -�Piet Hein "Grooks"
Life is just one damn thing after another.
- - -�Elbert Hubbard
To change your life;�
-Start immediately
-Do it flamboyantly
-No exceptions
- - -�William James
That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from
unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from
want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
- - -�Samuel Johnson
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
- - -�Danny Kaye
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- - -�Helen Keller
Change is the law of life.
- - -�John F. Kennedy
Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments.
- - -�Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
- - -�Soren Kierkegaard
My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue.�
An everlasting vision of the ever-changing view.
- - -�Carole King "Tapestry"
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
- - -�Martin Luther King, Jr.
There comes a time when it lies within a man's grasp to shape the clay of his life
into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, the times,
lack of good fortune, or quirks of fate.
- - -�Louis L'Amour
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
- - -�Anne Morrow Lindbergh
He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long
time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.
- - -��mile Littr�
Life is real! Life is earnest!�
And the grave is not its goal;�
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,�
Was not spoken of the soul.
- - -�Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "A Psalm of Life"
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
- - -�Fran Lebowitz
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
- - -�Lucretius
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
- - -�William Somerset Maugham
Life is simply a collection of memories, but memories are like star light... They
live on Forever.
- - -�C. W. McCall
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It is the same damn thing
over and over.
- - -�Edna St. Vincent Millay
I've looked at life from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all.
- - -�Joni Mitchell "Both Sides Now"
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
- - -�Wilson Mizner
Life is aimless: a little love, a little hate, and then - good day!�
Life is short: a little hope, a little dreaming, and then - goodnight!
- - -�Leon Montenaeken
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find
reality.
- - -�Iris Murdoch
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
- - -�Ogden Nash
Life is a cement trampoline.
- - -�Howard Nordberg
Life is just one damned thing after another.
- - -�Frank Ward O'Malley
Life is not one damn thing after another. It's the same damned thing over and over
again.
- - -�Edna St. Vincent Millay
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
- - -�Eugene O'Neill
The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
- - -�Kakuzo Okakaura
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,�
A medley of extemporanea;�
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,�
And I am Marie of Roumania.
- - -�Dorothy Parker "Comment"
All you touch and all you see,�
Is all your life will ever be.
- - -�Pink Floyd "Breathe"
Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
- - -�Carl Sandburg
Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.
- - -�David A.Schmaltz
Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
- - -�Charles M. Schultz
Life is like an ice-cream cone. You have to lick it one day at a time.
- - -�Charles M. Schultz (Charlie Brown)
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
- - -�Seneca
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,�
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,�
Signifying nothing.
- - -�William Shakespeare "MacBeth"
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be
serious when people laugh.
- - -�George Bernard Shaw
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a
hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before
handing it on to future generations
- - -�George Bernard Shaw
Life, like a dome of many-colored glass,�
Stains the white radiance of eternity.
- - -�Percy Bysshe Shelley "Adonais"
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- - -�Socrates
If I had my life to live over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
- - -�Nadine Stair
Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time, with a gift of tears;�
Grief, with a glass that ran;�
Pleasure, with pain for leaven;�
Summer, with flowers that fell;�
Remembrance, fallen from heaven,�
And madness risen from hell;�
Strength without hands to smite;�
Love that endures for a breath;�
Night, the shadow of light,�
And Life, the shadow of death.
- - -�Algernon Charles Swinburne "Atalanta in Calydon" (1865)
Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.
- - -�Rabindrinath Tagore
Life has loveliness to sell,�
All beautiful and splendid things,�
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,�
Soaring fire that sways and sings
And children's faces looking up
Holding wonder like a cup.
- - -�Sara Teasdale
Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.
- - -�Sara Teasdale
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we
choose.
- - -�Hsieh Tehyi
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
- - -�Jean Toomer
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream.�
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream.
- - -�Traditional Song
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
- - -�Mark Twain
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
- - -�Miguel de Unamuno
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and
to look up at the stars.
- - -�Henry VanDyke
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
- - -�Horace Walpole
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and
because it has fresh peaches in it.
- - -�Alice Walker
Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.
- - -�John Greenleaf Whittier
Of all the words of tongue and pen,�
The saddest are, "It might have been,"�
More sad are these we daily see
"It is, but it hadn't ought to be!"
- - -�John Greenleaf Whittier "Maud Muller"
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not
ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's
indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- - -�Elie Wiesel
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
- - -�Oscar Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each
other.
- - -�Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- - -�Oscar Wilde
The secret of life is in art.
- - -�Oscar Wilde
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- - -�Frank Lloyd Wright
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and
impossibility may become the rule.
- - - - Anita Brookner
Parent of golden dreams, Romance!
Auspicious queen of childish joys,
Who lead'st along, in airy dance,
Thy votive train of girls and boys.
- - - - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), To Romance
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
- - - - Barbara Cartland
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
- - - - Mason Cooley
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of every day life into a golden haze.
- - - - Elinor Glynn
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained
reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and
thinking in safe circles.
- - - - Beverly Jones
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
- - - - Stephen King
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You
Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's
always daisy-time.
- - - - D. H. Lawrence
He loved the twilight that surrounds
The border-land of old romance;
Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance,
And banner waves, and trumpet sounds,
And ladies ride with hawk on wrist,
And mighty warriors sweep along,
Magnified by the purple mist,
The dusk of centuries and of song.
- - - - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Prelude to Tales of a Wayside Inn
Romance is the poetry of literature.
- - - - Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker
Romance, who loves to nod and sing,
With drowsy head and folded wing
- - - - Edgar Allan Poe
Romance is everything.
- - - - Gertrude Stein
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
- - - - John Greenleaf Whittier
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
- - - - Oscar Wilde
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end
with a settlement.
- - - - Oscar Wilde
All I do is follow you around, picking up after you like some maid.�
How do you know you don't like it if you haven't tasted it?�
I brought you into this world, and I can take you right back out!�
I don't care what "everyone" is doing. I care what YOU are doing!
I don't have to explain myself. I said no.�
If God had wanted you to have holes in your ears (eyebrows, tongue, etc.) He would
have put them there!
If it were a snake, it would have bitten you.
If you could stay out last night, you can get up this morning.�
When you have your own house then you can make the rules!�
Who taught you THAT? You didn't learn that in this house!
You can go out to play...after you brush your teeth and comb your hair.
You can go out to play...after you pick up your room.
You can go out to play...after you've done your homework.
You can't judge a book by its cover.
You could grow potatoes in those ears!
You could have called.
You had better wipe that smile off your face before I do it for you.
You just ate an hour ago!
You made your bed, now lie in it.
You should have that phone surgically implanted in your ear.
You WILL eat it, and you WILL like it!
You'd forget your head if it wasn't attached to your shoulders!
You will ALWAYS be my baby.
You're going to put your eye out with that thing!
Your father is going to hear about this when HE gets home!
You're the oldest. You should know better.
why say it twice?
�
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