Tuesday, December 16, 2008

10 Short Funny Quotes about Marriage

Marriage 1. There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. ~ Clint Eastwood

2. Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. ~ Euripides

3. One man's folly is another man's wife. ~ Helen Rowland

4. By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. ~ Socrates

5. I know nothing about sex because I was always married. ~ Zsa Zsa Gabor

6. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

7. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. ~ Katharine Hepburn

8. Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets. ~  Ogden Nash

9. I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. ~ Rita Rudner

10. My wife says I never listen to her.  At least I think that's what she said. ~ Author Unknown

Sunday, December 14, 2008

10 Short Quotes about Ignorance

ignorance 1. To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

2. Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star. ~ Confucius

3. Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed. ~ Don Wood

4. Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. ~ Laurence J. Peter

5. Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ~ Sydney Smith

6. An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out. ~ Will Rogers

7. Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. ~ Jean de La Fontaine

8. Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ~ Bertrand Russell

9. He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. ~ Voltaire

10. We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Friday, December 12, 2008

10 Short Quotes about Talent

Talent 1. Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. ~ Henri-Frédéric Amie

2. Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

3. Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. ~ Henry Van Dyke

4. Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. ~ Leo Buscaglia

5. I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ~ Albert Einstein

6. Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

7. Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors. ~ Wendell Phillip

8. Great talents have some admirers, but few friends ~ Unknown

9. Conciseness is the sister of talent. ~ Anton Checkhov

10. True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. ~ John W. Gardner

Sunday, March 9, 2008

10 Short Quotes about Ideas

350228749_f979eb4f17_m 1. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. ~ John Steinbeck

2. He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. ~ Abraham Lincoln

3. Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. ~ Carl Schurz

4. There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. ~ Emile Chartier

5. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

6. To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! ~ H. L. Mencken
7. Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. ~ Jim Hightower,

8. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ~ John Cage

9. It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. ~ Anatole France

10. Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. ~ Ken Hakuta

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

7 Short Quotes about Health

1. Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside. ~ Albert Schweitzer

2. Health is not valued till sickness comes. ~ Dr. Thomas Fuller

3. Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

4. If you trust Google more than your doctor then maybe it's time to switch doctors. ~ Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

5. Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. ~ Quentin Crisp

6. One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick. ~ Rabbi Harold Kushner

7. Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. ~ Robert Orben

10 Short Quotes about Happiness

1. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. ~ Albert Schweitzer

2. The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. ~ Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

3. If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. ~ Bertrand Russell

4. Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. ~ hristopher Morley

5. Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others. ~ David Assael

6. A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. ~ George Bernard Shaw

7. It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ~ Kin Hubbard

8. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

9. When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. ~ Nicole Kidman

10. Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. ~ Oscar Levant