funny business quotes

Oaths are but words, and words but wind. ~Samuel Butler (1612-1680), Hudribas



God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb



A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. ~Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1783



But fate ordains that dearest friends must part. ~Edward Young



Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. ~Cicero Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. ~Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations, 1950



What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate. ~Bill Cosby



The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. ~G.K. Chesterton



Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. ~Rita Mae Brown



There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown



The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize lecture, 11 December 1968



A half-baked idea is okay as long as it's in the oven. ~Author Unknown



I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income. ~Gene Perret



I eat merely to put food out of my mind. ~N.F. Simpson



Love is blind; hate is deaf. ~Author Unknown



Backpacking: An extended form of hiking in which people carry double the amount of gear they need for half the distance they planned to go in twice the time it should take. ~Author Unknown



There is no gravity. The earth sucks. ~Graffito



Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. ~Mason Cooley



Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. ~Edward Abbey



The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. ~Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart



Will localizes us; thought universalizes us. ~Henri Frederic Amiel