It's somewhat ironic for me to be blogging this, considering my title-quote. But meh... Enjoy.
1.
The report of my death was an exaggeration
- Mark Twain -
2.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast
- Oscar Wilde -
3.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it
- Winston Churchill -
4.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love
- Charlie Brown -
5.
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French;
I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language
- Mark Twain -
6.
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune;
to lose both looks like carelessness
- Oscar Wilde -
7.
Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl
- Evan Esar -
8.
Those who live on hope, die fasting
- Benjamin Franklin -
9.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint
- Mark Twain -
10.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars
- Oscar Wilde -
11.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one
- Einstein -
12.
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity
- Oscar Wilde -
13.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence
- HL Mencken -
14.
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters
- Alice Ellis -
15.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray,
and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional
- Oscar Wilde -
16.
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland
- Woody Allen -
17.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be
- Douglas Adams -
18.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times
- Rita Rudner -
Labels: lists, Pew Life, procrastination
2 Comments:
I couldn't resist:
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it - Ashleigh Brilliant
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking - Henry Louis Mencken
Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is understood - Unknown
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have - Don Herold
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? - Albert Einstein
We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are - Anais Nin
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail - Abraham Maslow
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything - Alexander Hamilton
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear - Ambrose Redmoon
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it - Aristotle
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it - W.M. Lewis
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship - Louisa May Alcott
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot - Plato
The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all - Timothy Luce
As ever, an excellent choice Disco :-)
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