Funny Quotes about Likely

We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich

Working at a job you hate is unlikely
to bring you either happiness or success.
Do what you love. You are far more likely to gain success -
recognition and financial reward - if you are working
at something that inspires and excites you.
And, whether wealth follows or not, you will be happy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone has an opinion on many subjects
and is ready to share those opinions -
labeling them as "truth."
Sometimes it is relatively easy
to filter out these opinions.
Upon hearing an ad for the latest
weight-loss powder on late-night TV,
our skepticism leaps to our defense.
However, if we have heard the same opinion for years
from our parents, friends,
government officials, or religious leaders,
we are more likely to believe without questioning
than to raise our filter of skepticism
and ask the hard questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage
which in the past has been brought to public life
is not as likely to insist upon or regard
that quality in its chosen leaders today -
and in fact we have forgotten.
- John F. Kennedy

There never was and is not likely soon to be
a nation of philosophers,
nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
- Henry David Thoreau

A young man who does not have what
it takes to perform military service
is not likely to have what
it takes to make a living.
Today's military rejects include
tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
- John F. Kennedy

Yesterday is like a dung heap;
you can complain about the smell,
or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I'm not used to feeling so human.
Is it always like this?
- Edward, from Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer

Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes
in the hope of pulling out an eel.
- Leonardo da Vinci

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain

If I had known what it would be like to have it all -
I might have been willing to settle for less.
- Lily Tomlin

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic

When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein

Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek

Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)

I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair.
- the movie The Cabin in the Cotton

A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler

A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)

Personally, I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill

It's cookies, he smells like cookies,
and the smell gets stronger when he's in heat.
- the movie Michael

It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)

Life's like Vegas. You're up, you're down,
but in the end the house always wins.
Doesn't mean you didn't have fun.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain

I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde

Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell

You can always tell when a man's well informed.
His views are pretty much like your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- John F. Kennedy

A wedding is just like a funeral
except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein

True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer

Procrastination is like a credit card:
it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
- Christopher Parker

Advice is seldom welcome,
and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60.
They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I don't like to think of laws
as rules you have to follow,
but more as suggestions.
- George Carlin

Life is like a sewer...
what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
- Tom Lehrer

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water.
After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.
- Minnie Pearl

I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart

Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov

Self confident independent thinker -
sounds like the makings of a hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Technological progress is like an axe
in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein

When I hear a man preach,
I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
- Abraham Lincoln

I am always ready to learn
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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