Alfred (4)

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.

Yula Moses

When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.

William Shakespeare

Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Unknown

I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Mark Twain

We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less.

Epictetus

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.

Mort Sahl

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Oscar Wilde

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal

Sir Compton MacKenzie

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass and some cracked ice.

John Barrymore

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.

Thomas H. Huxley

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

W. Somerset Maugham

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

Ani DiFranco

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

George Orwell

You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.

Johann von Neumann

MORE, adj. The comparative degree of too much.

Ambrose Bierce

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

Plato

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Adrian Mitchell

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Robert Fritz

Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

Amy Vanderbilt

He who says, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," has not been hit by a dictionary.

Leo Pennworks

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot".

Terry Pratchett

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

alfred

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.

When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.

Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less.

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass and some cracked ice.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.

MORE, adj. The comparative degree of too much.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

He who says, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," has not been hit by a dictionary.

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot".

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.