quotations?

Question

give me sm unique quotations n also sm info
fast pl. hav to do homework

Answer 1

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
Groucho Marx

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
Jean de la Bruyère

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
Michel de Montaigne

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
Albert Jay Nock

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Jewish Proverb

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Jean de la Fontaine

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts.
Orson Welles

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde

Don’t tell me that worry doesn’t do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don’t happen.
Anonymous

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher

Youth is a wonderful thing: what a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
Steuart H. Britt

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
Chinese Proverb

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
Ed Howe

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t, they’d be married too.
H. L. Mencken

A human body is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
Christopher Morley

Hasten slowly.
Augustus Caesar

Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.
William James

The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
Charles deGaulle

Common sense is very uncommon.
Horace Greeley

When a man makes a woman his wife, it’s the highest compliment he can pay her, and it’s usually the last.
Helen Rowland

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
Publilius Syrus

Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
Anonymous

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?
Madame Dorothée Deluzy

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Will Rogers

To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

Never spend your money before you have it.
Thomas Jefferson

All human activity is prompted by desire.
Bertrand Russell

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
French Proverb

All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.
Maurice Seitter

He that has learned to obey will know how to command.
Solon

I have never been hurt by anything I didn’t say.
Calvin Coolidge

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
H. L. Mencken

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
George Iles

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
Charles William Dement

Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.
Phineas Fletcher

I drink to make other people interesting.
George Jean Nathan

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
Fanny Fern

When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.
Richard Amour

He who will not economize will have to agonize.
Confucius

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
Elbert Hubbard

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
Will Durant

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo

The only people who never fail are those who never try.
Ilka Chase

Many a man never fails because he never tries.
Norman MacEwan (by the way, does anybody know who is or was Norman MacEwan?)

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.
John Ciardi

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
Walter Gilbey

Man is his own worst enemy.
Cicero

The only real equality is in the cemetery.
German Proverb

An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Orlando A. Battista

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
H. L. Mencken

All modern men are descended from a worm-like creature, but it shows more on some people.
Will Cuppy

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Sanders Law

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark Twain

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.
Ed Howe

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
Ed Howe

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Plutarch

We confess small faults, in order to insinuate that we have no great ones.
François de La Rochefoucault

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren’t.
Sacha Guitry

It is better to be faithful than famous.
Theodore Roosevelt

Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings

No man is free who is not a master of himself.
Epictetus

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have these three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson Mizner

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin

Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
French Proverb

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin

One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Benjamin Franklin

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.
Voltaire

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
Goncourt

The best way to love God is to love many things.
Vincent van Gogh

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchel

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

There is not fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
Buddha

Answer 2

Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters. ~Bob Dylan

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen. ~ Dwight Eisenhower

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. ~ H.L. Mencken

Politics is the entertainment industry for ugly people. ~ Mark Turpin

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. ~ Winston Churchill

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you really want to test his character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

Talking to politicians is fine, but with a little money they hear you better. ~ Justin Dart,

Politics has gotten so expensive that it takes a lot of money to even get beat with. ~ Will Rogers

There are two things you need for success in politics. Money... and I can't think of the other. ~ Senator Mark Hannah

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ~ P.J. O'Rourke

PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Answer 3

These are chiastic quotes. Chiasmus [ky-AZ-mus] (plural -mi), a figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second. This may involve a repetition of the same words ("Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure" --Byron) or just a reversed parallel between two corresponding pairs of ideas . . . . The figure is especially common in 18th century English poetry, but is also found in prose of all periods. It is named after the Greek letter chi (x), indicating a "criss-cross" arrangement of terms. Adjective: chiastic.

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me
Than a frontal lobotomy." -- Randy Hanzlick, title of song

Home is where the great are small and the small are great.

NEVER LET A FOOL KISS YOU OR A KISS FOOL

"I can write better than
anybody who can write faster,
and I can write faster
than anybody who can write better."

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.." John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961

Genesis 9:6: "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed."

Answer 4

"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
-Anonymous
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
-Anonymous
"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
-Muhammad Ali
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."
-Henry Miller
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
-Robert Byrne
"Live to the point of tears."
-Albert Camus

Answer 5

Character can not be developed in ease and quite. Only through experience of trail and suffering can the soul be strenghtened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller