10 Short Funny Quotes about 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

10 Short Quotes about 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

5 Short Quotes about Courage

1. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. ~ Clare Booth Luce

2. Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~ Dorothy Bernard

3. Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ~ Eddie Rickenbacker

4. Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. ~ Harold Wilson

5. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. ~ Mark Twain

10 Short Quotes about Character

1. Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ~ Abraham Lincoln

2. Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. ~ Elmer G. Letterman

3. In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it. ~ Francis Thompson

4. A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

5. People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. ~ Hermann Hesse

6. When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~ Japanese Proverb

7. Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8. One can acquire everything in solitude - except character. ~ Marie Henri Beyle

9. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. ~ Sam Ewing

10 Short Quotes about America and Americans

1. In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

2. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. ~ Arnold Toynbee

3. England and America are two countries separated by a common language. ~ George Bernard Shaw

4. In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything. ~ Jeffery F. Chamberlain

5. America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. ~ John Updike

6. There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. ~ Judith Martin,

7. The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. ~ King Edward VIII

8. America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. ~ Laurence J. Peter

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

10. Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. ~ Gore Vidal

10 Short Quotes about Guests

1. If it were not for guests all houses would be graves. ~ Kahlil Gibran

2. Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure. ~ Portuguese Proverb

3. Fish and visitors smell in three days. ~ Benjamin Franklin

4. Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were. ~ Unknown Author

5. A pretty woman is a welcome guest. ~ Lord Byron

6. It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. ~ Homer

7. The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest. ~ Edouard Rene Lefebure Laboulaye

8. When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul. ~ Max Beerbohm

9. Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. ~ Sir Max Beerbohm

10. To be an ideal guest, stay at home. ~ Edgar Watson Howe

15 Short Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

1. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

2. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

3. If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

4. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

5. People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

6. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

7. You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

8. When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

9. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

10. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

11. The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

12. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

13. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

14. Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

15. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

15 Short Quotes by Martin Luther King

1. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

2. If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

3. Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

4. All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

5. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

6. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

7. A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

8. I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

9. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

10. Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?

11. Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

12. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

13. We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

14. When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

15. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

10 Short Quotes about People

1. People only see what they are prepared to see. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~ Margaret Mead

3. I always advise people never to give advice. ~ P. G. Wodehouse

4. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ~ Mark Twain

5. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. ~ Abraham Lincoln

6. The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood. ~ Orson Scott Card

7. Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring. ~ Honore de Balzac

8. The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. ~ W. R. Inge

9. Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ~ Kin Hubbard

10. We are the people our parents warned us about. ~ Jimmy Buffett