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Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. ~Fareed Zakaria



Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu



Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length - beginning, middle, end: a story unfolding. ~Sebastian Coe



There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. ~Stephen Stills



Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it. ~Jean Kerr



Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours. ~Richard Bach, Illusions



Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers. ~Charles M. Russell



The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~William James



How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? ~Rod Serling, quoted in Submitted for Your Approval, Public Broadcasting Station, 1995



The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws. ~Rick Wise, 1974



If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it. ~Author Unknown



We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Whoever said "laughter is the best medicine" never had gonorrhea. ~Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, My Name Is Earl, "Robbed a Stoner Blind," original airdate 16 November 2006



Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. ~Jonathan Swift



More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. ~Doug Larson



I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. ~Charles Evans Hughes



Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~J.R.R. Tolkien



A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ~G.K. Chesterton