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Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future.
 P Harry Thurston
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to
examine the laws of heat.
 Pa
Long Chen
The man-hating woman, like the cold woman, is largely imaginary. She
is simply a woman who has done her best to snare a man and has failed.
 Pa Jessie
Moneyliness is next to Godliness.
 Paar
Jack
Hark ye, Clinker, you are a most notorious offender. You stand convicted of
sickness, hunger, wretchedness, and want.
 Paar
Jack
If a man stay away from his wife for seven years, the law presumes the
separation to have killed him; yet according to our daily experience,
it might well prolong his life.
 Paine
Thomas
A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top
of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.
 Paine
Thomas
It's not a sin not to be Irish, but it is a great shame.
 Palindromist
The Mad
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and
robbers there will be.
 Parker
Dorothy
All the waters of the earth are in the armpit of the Great Frog.
 Parker
Dorothy
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
 Parker
Dorothy
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but
because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
 Parker
Dorothy
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
 Parker
Dorothy
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not
utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind,
a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.
 Parker
Dorothy
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie;
and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head
into the shop. "What! no soap?" So he died, and she very imprudently
married the barber; and there were  Parker
Dorthy
Practice yourself what you preach.
 Parker Robert
Mate, this parrot wouldn't VOOM if you put four million volts through it!
 Parkinson
The Poems, all three hundred of them, may be summed up in one of their phrases:
"Let our thoughts be correct".
 Parkinson
C.N.
If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.
 Parkinson
C.N.
The politician is someone who deals in man's problems of adjustment.
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
 Parnas
Dave
Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with
little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.
 Pascal
Blaise
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
 Pascal
Blaise
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
 Pascal
Blaise
Drop the vase and it will become a Ming of the past.
 Pasteur
L.
Who dat who say "who dat" when I say "who dat"?
 Pat Cadigan
"No job too big; no fee too big!"
 Pat Cadigan
British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive
it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.
 Patricia O Tuama
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
 Patrick
Saint
IV. The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or
equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to
spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken.
Such an object is inevitably price Patton
Never promise more than you can perform.
 Paul Erdman
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
 Paul Tillich German
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest
in students.
 Pelt
Lucy Van
If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from
a laboratory jar at Harvard.
 Penn Jillette
You can't run away forever,
But there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start.
 Penn William
I love treason but hate a traitor.
 Perce Chief Joseph
Home is where the hurt is.
 Perelman
S.J.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near
the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people
to do so.
 Pericles
We are not a loved organization, but we are a respected one.
 Perlis
Alan J.
Rome was not built in one day.
 Peter
Dr. Laurence J.
Nice guys finish last.
 Peter
Dr. Laurence J.
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
 Peter
Irene
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it
were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
 Peter
Laurence
The [Ford Foundation] is a large body of money completely surrounded by
people who want some.
 Peter
Laurence J.
The state of innocence contains the germs of all future sin.
 Peter
Laurence J.
No matter whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme
court follows th' iliction returns.
 Peter Stack
The polite thing to do has always been to address people as they wish to be
addressed, to treat them in a way they think dignified. But it is equally
important to accept and tolerate different standards of courtesy, not
expecting everyone else to ad Peter Straub
The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men
should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal
weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine
we own.
 Petronius
Gaius
Chance is perhaps the work of God when He did not want to sign.
 Phaedrus
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of
Congress. But I repeat myself.
 Phaedrus
Talkers are no good doers.
 Phaedrus
I might have gone to West Point, but I was too proud to speak to a congressman.
 Philip Hale Boston
... Our second completely true news item was sent to me by Mr. H. Boyce
Connell Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., where he is involved in a law firm. One thing
I like about the South is, folks there care about tradition. If somebody
gets handed a name like "H.  Philips
Emo
No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep
awake all day.
 Phillips
Emo
Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere.
Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain.
From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
 Phillips
Utah
If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius  Physicist John von Neumann
If reporters don't know that truth is plural, they ought to be lawyers.
 Picasso
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
 Picasso
The means-and-ends moralists, or non-doers, always end up on their ends
without any means.
 Picasso
Pablo
As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
 Pike Bishop James
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy
of him that brought her birth.
 Pile Stephen
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
 Pile Stephen
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
 Pile Stephen
I'd be a poorer man if I'd never seen an eagle fly.
 Pile Stephen
"Are you police officers?"
"No, ma'am. We're musicians."
 Pile Stephen
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent
and original in your work.
 Pindar
The nearer to the church, the further from God.
 Pindar
Every why hath a wherefore.
 Pinero
Sir Arthur Wing
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians
who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool
all of the people all of the time.
 Pintauro
Joseph
It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of
indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury
is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim
of infanticide.
 Pirsig Robert
Authors (and perhaps columnists) eventually rise to the top of whatever
depths they were once able to plumb.
 Platford
Lois
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
 Plato
April 1
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three
hundred and sixty-four.
 Plato
For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
 Plato
The Israelis are the Doberman pinschers of the Middle East. They
treat the Arabs like postmen.
 Plato
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would
be a merrier world.
 Plato
Your wig steers the gig.
 Plato
Small is beautiful.
 Plautus
Titus Maccius
"...The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes'!"
"Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to
feel interested.
"No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little
vexed. "That's what the name is called. The nam Plautus
Titus Maccius
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails,
admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
 Plautus
Titus Maccius
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
 Player
Willis
I will make you shorter by the head.
 Plotinus
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being
as his Father, in the womb of a virgin will be classified with the fable of
the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the
dawn of reason and  Plummer
Christopher
You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.
 Plutarch
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from
the vexation of thinking.
 Pollard
John G.
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak
it to?
 Pooh-Bah
After his Ignoble Disgrace, Satan was being expelled from
Heaven. As he passed through the Gates, he paused a moment in thought,
and turned to God and said, "A new creature called Man, I hear, is soon
to be created."
"This is true," He replied.
 Pope
"You've got to have a gimmick if your band sucks."
 Pope
Alexander
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
 Pope
Alexander
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.
 Pope John Paul
Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.
 Pope St. Gregory
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
 Poppins
Mary
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some
kind of loophole.
 Postmas James
To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects
but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.
 Pournelle
Niven and
A good scapegoat is hard to find.
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
 Powers
Richard
Fortune's Guide to Freshman Notetaking:
WHEN THE PROFESSOR SAYS: YOU WRITE:
Probably the greatest quality of the poetry John Milton  Prabhupada
Swami
Don't vote  Prentice
George D.
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
 President
Pat Paulsen for
It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.
 Presley
Elvis
The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men
should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal
weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine
we own.
 Presley
Elvis
Marijuana will be legal some day, because the many law students
who now smoke pot will someday become congressmen and legalize
it in order to protect themselves.
 Price
Don
Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
 Prochnow
Herbert
Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their
reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those
who are totally in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in
the world's estimation, and publicly and privately Prochnow
Herbert V.
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
 Professor
English
Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than
being flat broke and having a stomach ache.
 Prosser
D. Winkel and F.
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction
rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
 Protagoras
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
 Proust
M.
I'd just as soon kiss a Wookie.
 Proverb
A Yippie
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
 Proverb
Ancient Simian
A word to the wise is enough.
 Proverb
Chinese
It is like saying that for the cause of peace, God and the Devil will
have a high-level meeting.
 Proverb
Chinese
Sho' they got to have it against the law. Shoot, ever'body git high,
they wouldn't be nobody git up and feed the chickens. Hee-hee.
 Proverb
Recent Chinese
My daddy's brains was so scrambled he thought he was Jesus. They put him
in a nut house for 5 years and when he got out, he didn't think he was
Jesus, he thought he was *God*! ... Which made me Jesus.
 Pryne
Hester
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
 Psalms
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The
man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
 Publilius
Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
 Publius Ovidius Naso
Men are superior to women.
 Publius Terentius Afer
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
 Publius Terentius Afer
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
 Publius Terentius Afer
Everyone is in the best seat.
 Publius Terentius Afer
And they mainly want to teach them not to question, not to imagine,
but to be obedient and behave well so that they can hold them forever as
children to their bosom as the second millennium lurches toward its
panicky close.
 Publius Vergilius Maro
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
 Publius Vergilius Maro
Fear and loathing, my man, fear and loathing.
 Publius Vergilius Maro
I just asked myself... what would John DeLorean do?
 Publius Vergilius Maro
I BET WHAT HAPPENED was they discovered fire and invented the wheel on
the same day. Then that night, they burned the wheel.
 Pudd'nhead Wilson's
He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
 Pulitzer
Joseph
Governor Tarkin. I should have expected to find you holding Vader's
leash. I thought I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board.
 Pusey
Nathan
Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue
ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature.
This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.
 Pyrrhus
When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
 Python
Monty
The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing,
the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its
own capacity. ... Fuss, the god of the Southern Ocean, and Fret, the god
of the Northern Ocean, h prayer
Medieval
Here's to women. Would that we could fall into her arms without falling
into her hands.
 proverb
Arab
Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no.
 proverb
Arabian
The pollution's at that awkward stage. Too thick to navigate and too
thin to cultivate.
 proverb
Chinese
The Bible says that woman was the last thing God made. Evidently He made
her on Saturday night. She reveals his fatigue.
 proverb
Chinese
... [concerning quotation marks] even if we *___did* quote anybody in this
business, it probably would be gibberish.
 proverb
Chinese
"... gentlemen do not read each other's mail."
 proverb
Chinese
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
 proverb
Chinese
The man who has never been flogged has never been taught.
 proverb
Chinese
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and
ask for it back the when it begins to rain.
 proverb
Chinese
The early bird who catches the worm works for someone who comes in late
and owns the worm farm.
 proverb
Indian
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers and
cheating on your income tax.
 proverb
Italian
To teach is to learn twice.
 proverb
Polish
If ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there
better be no trade. A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud.
 proverb
Spanish
There is no doubt that my lawyer is honest. For example, when he
filed his income tax return last year, he declared half of his salary
as 'unearned income.'
 proverb
Turkish
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
 proverb.
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There is no doubt that my lawyer is honest. For example, when he
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