Showing posts with label Funny Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Funny Quotes. Show all posts

Jul 6, 2007

Computer Quotes

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there’s no law against whacking them around a bit.

Q: What is the difference between Windows 95 and Windows 98? A: 3 years

Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Q: How does Bill Gates screw in a lightbulb?
A: He doesn’t. He declares darkness the industry standard.

….. Ya see, we at Microsoft believe in making computing easier! What could be easier for consumers than having only ONE choice of software?!?

Mar 22, 2007

Famous Wedding Quotes Sayings and Quotations

Huge Collection of Famous Wedding Quotes Sayings and Quotations

It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!

Live the life you've dreamed
------ Henry David Thoreau-------

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering...

Marriage - a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
--------Beverly Nichols------

The trouble with some woman is that they get all excited about nothing, and then marry him -
----- Cher------

The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.
----- Polish Proverb---

This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love
-- Unknown---

Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.
----- Friedrich Halm---

We sat side by side in the morning light
and looked out at the future together.
----- Brian Andres---

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
-- Jean Kerr---

Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30 - Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30 - Catherine II of Russia
-- Catherine II---

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare---

In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
-- Groucho Marx---


What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.
Mark 10:9
-- BIBLE---

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly---

Mar 20, 2007

Birth Quotes Sayings and Quotations

We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein


The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton


Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.
Evan S. Connell


I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
Thomas Alva Edison


Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
French proverb


At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
Benjamin Franklin

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
Reverend Larry Lorenzoni


Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.
Edward Steichen


If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
Dag Hammarskjold

Youth has no age.
Pablo Picasso

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.
Jean Renoir


For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
John Glenn


Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde


The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day


You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope

America Quotes Sayings and Quotations

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.


America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.


There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.


The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.


America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.


The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.


America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.


At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.


If you think the United States has stood still, who built The largest shopping center in the world?


It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.


The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.


The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.

Age Sayings Quotes and Quotations

Collection of funny Age Sayings Quotes and Quotations

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

True is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are only young once. That is all society can stand.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

Advice Quotes Sayings and Quotations

Collection of funny Advice Sayings Quotes and Quotations
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.

When a thing is done, advice comes too late.

When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.

The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago ... "Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation."

Ability Quotes Sayings and Quotations

Ability Quotes Sayings and Quotations Collection

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.


The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.


To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.


The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.


Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.


Ability is sexless.


Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.


Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.


Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.


The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.


Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.


They are able because they think they are able.


The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.


We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.


Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.


You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.


Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.


Ability is of little account without opportunity.


The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains


No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.


Ability without honor is useless.


The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.


Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.


Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.


There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.


I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.


Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.


I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.


All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.


Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Adversity Quotes Sayings and Quotations

Huge Collection of funny Adversity Sayings Quotes and Quotations

And if thou shouldst be cast into the a pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the bdeep; if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to chedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of dhell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee eexperience, and shall be for thy good.


If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.


The Son of Man hath descended below them all. Art thou greater than he?



If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.


If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.


If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.


If you're going through hell, keep going.


Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.


Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.


Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.


Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, And good in everything.


That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.


The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.


The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.


The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.


The best way out of a difficulty is through it.


The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.


If thou art accused with all manner of false accusations; if thine enemies fall upon thee; if they tear thee from the society of thy father and mother and brethren and sisters; and if with a drawn sword thine enemies tear thee from the bosom of thy wife, and of thine offspring, and thine elder son, although but six years of age, shall cling to thy garments, and shall say, My father, my father, why can’t you stay with us? O, my father, what are the men going to do with you? and if then he shall be thrust from thee by the sword, and thou be dragged to bprison, and thine enemies prowl around thee like cwolves for the blood of the lamb;


If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.


If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.


If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Engineering Quotes Sayings and Quotations

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a
knight in shining armor to lead all his customers
out of a mire of technological chaos neatly
ignores the fact that it was he who by peddling
second-hand, second-rate technology, led them all
into it in the first place.


It has become appallingly obvious that our
technology has exceeded our humanity ..


Programming today is a race between software
engineers striving to build bigger and better
idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to
produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the
Universe is winning.


Optimist: The glass is half full. Pessimist:
The glass is half empty. Re-engineering
Consultant: That glass is twice as large as it
needs to be.


Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic.


When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets
dark, you don't throwaway the ticket and jump off.
You sit still and trust the engineer.


If email had been around before the telephone was
invented, people would have said, "Hey, forget
email! With this new telephone invention I can
actually talk to people!"


The good news: Computers allow us to work 100%
faster. The bad news: They generate 300% more
work.


Optimist: "The glass is half full."
Pessimist: "The glass is half empty."
Engineer: "That glass is twice as large as it
needs to be."


Programming today is a race between software
engineers striving to build bigger and better
idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to
produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the
Universe is winning.


Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If
your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.


The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the
first 90 percent of the development time...The
remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the
other 90 percent of the development time.

Irish Quotes Sayings and Quotations

No man is an Ireland.

In dreams begins responsibility.

Irish Nobel Prize-winning poet

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the
epitaph on its headstone might well be: `It seemed
a good idea at the time.'


You've got to do your own growing, no matter how
tall your grandfather was.


Why should you never iron a 4-leaf clover? You
don't want to press your luck.


May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, and may trouble avoid you wherever you go.


As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point in the wrong direction!



You never miss the water till the well has run dry.



Half a loaf of bread is better than no bread at all.


Remember even if you loose all, keep your good name; for if you loose that you are worthless.


Saint Patrick was a gentleman...Who through
strategy and stealth...Drove all the snakes from
Ireland...Here's a drinkee to his health! But not
too many drinkees...Lest we lose ourselves and
then...Forget the good Saint Patrick...And see
them snakes again!


GOD KEEP MY JEWEL THIS DAY FROM DANGER
From tinker and pooka and black-hearted stranger
From harm of the water and hurt of the fire
From the horns of the cows going home to the byre
From teasing the ass when he's tied to the manger
From stones that would bruise and from thorns of the briar
From evil red berries that waken desire
From hunting the gander and vexing the goat
From depths o' seawater by Danny's old boat
From cut and from tumble --- from sickness and weeping
MAY GOD have my jewel this day in his keeping.


THE FIDDLER OF DOONEY
When I play on my fiddle in Dooney,
Folk dance like a wave of the sea;
My cousin is priest in Kilvarnet,
My brother in Moharubuiee.

I passed my brother and cousin,
They read in their books of prayer;
I read in my book of songs
I bought at the Sligo fair.

When we come at the end of time,
To Peter sitting in state,
He will smile on the three old spirits,
But call me first through the gate.

For the good are always the merry,
Save by an evil chance,
And the merry love the fiddle
And the merry love to dance;

And when the folk there spy me,
They will all come up to me,
With "Here is the fiddler of Dooney!"
And dance like a wave of the sea."


An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold
onto one blade of grass to keep from falling off
the earth.


Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to
find another Irishman to make a speech to.


May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields
and, Until we meet again
May God hold you in the palm of His hand


May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full
moon on a dark night, and the road downhill all
the way to your door.


A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures
in the doctor's book


In order to find his equal, an Irishman is forced
to talk to God.


The most beautiful music of all is the music of
what happens.


When I realized what I had turned out to be was a
lousy, two-bit pool hustler and a drunk, I wasn't
depressed at all. I was glad to have a profession.


Irish Pool Player
I have never liked working. To me a job is an
invasion of privacy


Irish Pool Player
One of the worst things that can happen in life is
to win a bet on a horse at an early age.


Irish Pool Player
To please himself only the cat purrs.


May those who love us love us
And those who don't love us
May God turn their hearts,
And if He doesn't turn their hearts,
May He turn their ankles,
So we'll know them by their limping.

Beauty Sayings Quotes and Quotations

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank

If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted
doing anything but standing around.
- Cybil Shepard

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
- Anonymous

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure
one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them,
but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
- Aristotle

As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face.
- Joseph Campbell

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are
permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty
than logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise
- George Santayana (1863-1952)

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity
- Plato

You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty,
love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be consecrated
at the altar of daily life.
- MacRina Wiederkehr

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see Beauty.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see Beauty never grows old.
- Frank Kafka

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses.
It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight,
who first noted natural beauty.
- Remy de Gourmont

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that
stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness
that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful
conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain
true to them, your world will at last be built
- James Allen

Beauty Parlor: A place where women curl up and dye
- Aiken Drum

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.
- Anne Frank

People are like stained glass windows -- the true beauty can be seen only when
there is light from within. The darker the night, the brighter the windows
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Beauty is in the eye of it's beholder.
- Unknown

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind,
he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but reality
(for he has hold not of an image but of a reality),
and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God
and be immortal, if mortal man may.
- Plato

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
- Jean Anouilh

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and
asks nothing beyond itself.
Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
- Marcus Aurelius

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts;
which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things;
which is the mean of many extremes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty.
That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases;
it will never pass into nothingness.
- John Keats

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep.
That's deep enough. What do you want--an adorable pancreas?
- Jean Kerr

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief
that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul
shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility,
you are not attractive--you are leaking.
- Fran Lebowitz

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
There is really nothing to be said about it.
It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all
- W. Somerset Maugham

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development,
invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
- Edgar Allen Poe

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own--even more,
one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being
- Katherine Anne Porter

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty,
just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
- John Ruskin

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the
spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul
- George Sand

To me, fair friend, you never can be old For as you were when
first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still.
- William Shakespeare

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it
when it has been in the house three days?
- George Bernard Shaw

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work.
We must feel and be affected by it.
- Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]

Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

She was a beauty in her youth a fact which she alone remembers
- Benjamin Constant

The beauty of male has not yet been portrayed by the only one who can do so-the female
- G. C. Lichtenberg

Beauty is only skin deep, but it`s a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense
- Kin Hubbard

By plucking her petals, You do not gather the beauty of the flower.
- Rabindrath Tagore

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty.
There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
- Navajo Song

Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see
Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.
- Bliss Carman (1861-1929) Canadian poet, author

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka

Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.
- Anonymous

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.
Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
- (Whitney Houston) --"The Greatest Love of All."
Written by Michael Masser and Linda McCreed for George Benson

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity
of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy,
and my plain dealing; 'tis all I have to recommend me to the
esteem either of others or myself.
- Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) English author

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
- David Hume

Compliments invite the person who is complimented to embrace a new
perception of him or herself. And just as layers and layers of nacre form a pearl
over an irritating grain of sand, so compliments collect around us,
developing us in all our beauty.
- Daphne Rose Kingma

Beauty fades . . . dumb is forever.
- Judge Judy

Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them,
but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind.
To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will.
To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.
- Bernard Edmonds

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician
- Unknown

May the sun bring you new energies by day, may the moon softly restore you by night,
may the rain wash away any worries you may have. May gentle breezes refresh your soul
and all the days of your life, may you walk gently through the world and know its beauty.
- Unknown

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you.
Let us work together for unity and love.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. -
- Father Andre

Adventure Sayings Quotes and Quotations

Collection of funny Adventure Sayings Quotes and Quotations

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you
may be the world An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
--G. K. Chesterton

Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain.
Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life --
facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources a
gainst the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.
--John Amatt organizer and participant in Canada's
first successful expedition to the summit of Mt Everest.

Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline
in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.
--Milton R. Saperstein

Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.
--Charles Frohman

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.
--Helen Keller

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly
lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure
in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger,
to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
--Annie Besant English Peace and Social Justice Advocate

There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world
--Pierre Mac ORLAN

Addiction Sayings Quotes and Quotations

Collection of funny Addiction Sayings Quotes and Quotations

Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?
--Clifford Stoll

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
--Tallulah Bankhead

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
--Terence

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an
arrested development in man's moral nature.
--Thorstein Veblen

Addiction should never be treated as a crime.
It has to be treated as a health problem.
We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country.
Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
--Ralph Nader

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in
excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
--Clarence Day

There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are weak men.
Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.
--Martin H. Fischer

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be
alcohol or morphine or idealism.
--Carl Gustav Jung

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
--W H Auden

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
--Ann Landers

Abraham Lincoln Quotes Sayings and Quotations

Collection of funny Abraham Lincoln Sayings Quotes and Quotations

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just
encouragement to industry and enterprise.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Whatever you are, be a good one.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master This expresses my idea of democracy.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Everything I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned
to know who his grandson will be.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
--Abraham Lincoln

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
--Abraham Lincoln

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
--Abraham Lincoln

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to men.
All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend
is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it,
above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note,
nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Address at Gettysburg, (Gettysburg Address) 1863

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just - that all
men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel
there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early
that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.
I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)



Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time
for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences,
including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Things may come to those who wait. But only the things left by those who hustle.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction
that I had nowhere else to go
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Mar 19, 2007

America Quotes Sayings and Quotations

Huge collection of American Quotes Sayings and Quotations

America is a tune. It must be sung together.


I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.


America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.


This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.


America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.


What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.


In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.


The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.


How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.


America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.


I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.


I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.


Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.


I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.


I love my sister very much. She is an incredibly talented, smart, and impressive individual, but she had never cooked a Thanksgiving dinner in her life.


You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!


The only thing that makes you see that Vin is a star is what he's like on film. I think he has amazing presence and he's smart.


It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Famous Irish sayings quotes and quotations

Huge collection of Famous Irish sayings quotes and quotations

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.


He who is not strong must needs be cunning.


If you are lucky enough to be Irish, then you are lucky enough.


May you both live as long as you want, And never want as long as you live.


What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart ?


Bless your little Irish heart and every other Irish part.


A man is often a bad adviser to himself and a good adviser to another.


As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point in the wrong direction.


May the blessings of each day be the blessings you need most.


Beauty suffers no pain.


The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch.


When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.


You never miss the water till the well has run dry.


The longest road out is the shortest road home.


Remember even if you loose all, keep your good name; for if you loose that you are worthless.

The Irish are very fair people, they never speak well for one another.


Good laugh and long sleep are the best cures in a doctor's book.


May you get all your wishes but one so you always have something to strive for.


Wherever you go and whatever you do, May the luck of the Irish be there with you.


Distant hills look green.


He is bad that will not take advice, but he is a thousand times worse that takes every advice.


A rainy day isn't a day for the children.


Only Irish coffee provides all main essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.


May the Lord keep you in his hand and never close his fist too tight.

Famous Rare Inspirational Quotes Sayings and Quotations

HUGE Collection of Famous Rare Inspirational Sayings Quotations and Quotes

"When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil, while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments."
--Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President


"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
-- Mark Twain


"As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big."
-- Donald Trump


"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."
-- Martha Washington, First American First Lady

Mar 10, 2007

Funny Robin Williams Quotes

Here are some funny Robin Williams quotes. There are 14 quotes and all of them are funny, witty and great humour.

"Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose."

"We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture."

"Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs."

"Do you think God gets stoned? I think so . . . look at the platypus."

"God gave men a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time."

"In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say "Stop, or I'll say stop again.""

"We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities."

"If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days."

"Politics: “Poli” a Latin word meaning “many”; and "tics" meaning “bloodsucking creatures”."

"People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House."

"My God. We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins."

"I like my wine like my women -- ready to pass out."

"Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet."

"When in doubt, go for the dick joke."

Feb 25, 2007

Birthday Sayings & Quotes

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing "Happy Birthday".


There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents ... and only one for birthday presents, you know.


No wise man ever wished to be younger.


There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.


You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.


Age is a high price to pay for maturity.


It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.


Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.


Today is the yesterday you worried about tomorrow.


From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.


May you live all the days of your life.


The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.


The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.


For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.


Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of 'you' to the world.


Hope your Birthday gently breezes into your life all the choicest of things and all that your heart holds dear Have A Fun- Filled Day.


A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.


Youth is a disease from which we all recover.


The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.


Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.


Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

Best Friend Sayings, Quotes and Quotations

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walk out.


A best friend shares the good times and help you out by listening during the bad times.


One's best friend is oneself.


A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.


Best friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway.


Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.


Never explain yourself. Your friends don?t need it and your enemies won?t believe it.


If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.


There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.


One who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.


A friend is a gift one give oneself.


My best friend is the someone who brings out the best of me.


The medicine of life is to have true faithful friends.


A best friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.


Lots of your friends want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.


The best mirror in the world is an old friend.


A true friend is someone you can disagree with and still remain friends.If not, they weren't true friends in the first place.


A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.


True friends are very difficult to find, hard to leave, and impossible to forget.


A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.


Hold a true friend with both your hands.


When you look around and your world is crumbling or when you think no one loves you, your best friend is the one to run to you.


A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half cracked.


Thick and thin, tall and small, fast and slow. Tell me who is always there for you. I am sure you know. Your best friend, of course, don't let him or her go