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A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles
in the road.
 Ade
George
You may my glories and my state dispose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
 Bernanos Georges
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of
work to do.
 Burns
George
Sometimes, too long is too long.
 Burns
George
Gone With The Wind LITE(tm)
 Carlin
George
If we see the light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of an
oncoming train.
 Chapman
George
How can you govern a nation which has 246 kinds of cheese?
 Cohan
George M.
Please try to limit the amount of "this room doesn't have any bazingas"
until you are told that those rooms are "punched out." Once punched out,
we have a right to complain about atrocities, missing bazingas, and such.
 Cohan
George M.
She applies her lipstick in spite of its contents: "greasy rouge,
containing crushed and dried insect corpses for coloring, beeswax for
stiffness, and olive oil to help it flow - the latter having the
unfortunate tendency to go rancid several hours a Eliot
George
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
 Eliot
George
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised
when others believe him.
 George
If you want divine justice, die.
 George F. Baer railroad
A diplomat's life consists of three things: protocol, Geritol, and alcohol.
 George Kennan
I stick my neck out for nobody.
 George Saunder
They use different words for things in America.
For instance they say elevator and we say lift.
They say drapes and we say curtains.
They say president and we say brain damaged git.
 George Seldes
The price of success in philosophy is triviality.
 Gillette
George Francis
Two wrongs are only the beginning.
 Gordon George
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
 Jessel
Sir George
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
 Kaufman
George
"We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole
country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas."
 Kaufman
George S.
Brahma said: Well, after hearing ten thousand explanations, a fool is no
wiser. But an intelligent man needs only two thousand five hundred.
 McGovern
George
If a fool persists in his folly he shall become wise.
 Meredith
George
NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he
says is wrong.
GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says
will be right.
 Orwell
George
When you die, you lose a very important part of your life.
 Orwell
George
The best case: Get salary from America, build a house in England,
live with a Japanese wife, and eat Chinese food.
Pretty good case: Get salary from England, build a house in America,
live with a Chinese wife, and eat Japanese food.
The wo Orwell
George
No group of professionals meets except to conspire against the public at large.
 Orwell George
"Rights" is a fictional abstraction. No one has "Rights", neither machines
nor flesh-and-blood. Persons... have opportunities, not rights, which they
use or do not use.
 Prentice
George D.
In America, any boy may become president and I suppose that's just one
of the risks he takes.
 Rockwell
George Lincoln
When you're in command, command.
 Santayana
George
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
 Santayana
George
There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.
 Santayana
George
Think lucky. If you fall in a pond, check your pockets for fish.
 Santayana
George
It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that
English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many
other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case.
 Shaw
George Bernard
Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
 Shaw
George Bernard
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
 Shaw
George Bernard
Our swords shall play the orators for us.
 Shaw
George Bernard
Rotten wood cannot be carved.
 Shaw
George Bernard
Never laugh at live dragons.
 Shaw
George Bernard
In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a
loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a loaf of bread and gave it to
you, you would only be tried for receiving, a crime punishable by forty
lashes with the cat or the dog, Shaw
George Bernard
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
 Shaw
George Bernard
A prediction is worth twenty explanations.
 Shaw
George Bernard
Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to
all your troubles.
 Shaw
George Bernard
Giving money and power to governments is like giving whiskey and
car keys to teenage boys.
 Shaw
George Bernard
Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations
Various signs in Poland:
Right turn toward immediate outside.
Go soothingly in the snow, as there lurk the ski demons.
Five o'clock tea at all hours.
In a men's washroom in Sidney:
 Shaw George Bernard
Scratch the average female and you'll find a purring bundle... at the
ready to love and honor, bake a torte and still produce quintuplets.
 Wallace
George
Objectivity is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.
 Wallace
George
It is like saying that for the cause of peace, God and the Devil will
have a high-level meeting.
 Washington
George
"All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland will please raise their right hands."
 Will
George
IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's
got to be a better way.
 Will
George
You always introduce the younger person to the older person, using the
wording: "Miss Brown, I'd like to introduce you to an older person"
(unless her name is not "Miss Brown"). If you do not know a person's
age, ask for a driver's license and a ma Winters
George
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The nearer to the church, the further from God.
 Heywood
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