O Day of days when we can read!
The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
- Khalil Gibran
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
Be Deliciously Naughty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
I am Deliciously Naughty.
I am Enchantingly Whimsical.
I am Filled With Mischief and Giggles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Anger spells dANGER.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
Crazy is walking down the street
with half a cantaloupe on your head,
muttering; "I'm a hamster, I'm a hamster."
- the movie Spy Hard (1996)
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
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
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- Yogi Berra
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
I love my attitude problem.
- Anonymous
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Ending a sentence with a preposition is
something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
- Mark Twain
I ride my blue polka-dot horse through the byways of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
I love deadlines.
I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
- Douglas Adams
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- H. L. Mencken
Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
You may as well laugh at life,
because it's certainly laughing at you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Comedy keeps the heart sweet.
- Mark Twain
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare,
and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
- Charles Darwin
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
You can observe a lot by just watching.
- Yogi Berra
There are three hundred and sixty-four days
when you might get un-birthday presents,
and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde
I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
Hero needed - apply now -
open minded independent thinker -
courage preferred.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
In soloing - as in other activities -
it is far easier to start something
than it is to finish it.
- Amelia Earhart
All diseases run into one - old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
It's not a mess.
It's a physical manifestation of
a wonderfully complex ability to
assess and compartmentalize information.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The difference between stupidity and genius
is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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