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Drop the vase and it will become a Ming of the past.
 W Smile
Age before beauty; and pearls before swine.
 W. Leo Rosten on
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
 Wa Cleon Thucydides
The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.
 Wa Wanda
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
 Wade
Harry V.
Well, the handwriting is on the floor.
 Wagner
Jane
There is much Obi-Wan did not tell you.
 Wagner
Lichty &
God instructs the heart, not by ideas, but by pains and contradictions.
 Wagner
Michael J.
According to my best recollection, I don't remember.
 Walinsky
Adam
If you're like most homeowners, you're afraid that many repairs
around your home are too difficult to tackle. So, when your furnace
explodes, you call in a so-called professional to fix it. The
"professional" arrives in a truck with lettering on t Walker
Stanley
... before I could come to any conclusion it occurred to me that my speech
or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility. What
did it matter what anyone knew or ignored? What did it matter who was
manager? One gets sometimes s Wallace
George
When the sun shineth, make hay.
 Wallace
George
A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth.
 Wallach.
Carole
Men will fuck mud.
 Wanda
(1) Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood.
(2) If your stomach antagonizes you, pacify it with cool thoughts.
(3) Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.
(4) Go very lightly on the vices, such as carrying on in society, as
 War Oliver
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
 Ward
A.
Leave no stone unturned.
 Ward
Artemus
Then, gently touching my face, she hesitated for a moment as her incredible
eyes poured forth into mine love, joy, pain, tragedy, acceptance, and peace.
"'Bye for now," she said warmly.
 Ward
Jay
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
 Warhol
Andy
The Poems, all three hundred of them, may be summed up in one of their phrases:
"Let our thoughts be correct".
 Warhol
Andy
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
 Warhol
Andy
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
 Warner Jack
It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward
the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the
case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by
crying babies smoking inexpensiv Washington
Booker T.
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
 Washington
George
My father, a good man, told me, "Never lose your ignorance; you cannot
replace it."
 Washlesky
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
 Watts
Alan
If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?
 Wau Evelyn
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's
incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."
 Way
Glaser and
The flush toilet is the basis of Western civilization.
 Wayfarer
Many hands make light work.
 Weaver
Ken
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because
it isn't here.
 Webber
Dean
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, scratch where it itches.
 Webster
Daniel
"Plaese porrf raed."
 Weil Joseph
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive!
 Weiler
A.H.
A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet.
 Weinberg
Darrin
Think lucky. If you fall in a pond, check your pockets for fish.
 Weiner
No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
 Wellington
The Duke of
VII. Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble tunnel
entrances; others cannot.
This trompe l'oeil inconsistency has baffled generations, but at least
it is known that whoever paints an entrance on a wall's surface to
 Wellington Duke
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
 Wells
Carolyn
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
 Wells
H.G.
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but
that's the way to bet.
 Wells
H.G.
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our
thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another
in the waking state?
 Wells
H.G.
The farther you go, the less you know.
 Wells
H.G.
Intellect annuls Fate.
So far as a man thinks, he is free.
 Wells
H.G.
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry up is not nailed down.
 Wells
J. Wellington
A word to the wise is enough.
 Wells
J. Wellington
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
 Wells H.G.
I didn't believe in reincarnation in any of my other lives. I don't see why
I should have to believe in it in this one.
 West
Mae
There must be more to life than having everything.
 West
Mae
If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers.
But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.
 West
Rebecca
Whom the mad would destroy, first they make Gods.
 Whalen
Philip
A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion.
 Wheeler
Harvey
The idea there was that consumers would bring their broken electronic
devices, such as television sets and VCR's, to the destruction centers,
where trained personnel would whack them (the devices) with sledgehammers.
With their devices thus permanent White
E. B.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
 White
E.B.
You're all clear now, kid. Now blow this thing so we can all go home.
 White
E.B.
For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
 White
Paul
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
 White
T.H.
May you live in uninteresting times.
 White
T.H.
We're fantastically incredibly sorry for all these extremely unreasonable
things we did. I can only plead that my simple, barely-sentient friend
and myself are underprivileged, deprived and also college students.
 White
William Allen
Look, we trade every day out there with hustlers, deal-makers, shysters,
con-men. That's the way businesses get started. That's the way this
country was built.
 White
William Allen
The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job
application form.
 White Katherine
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need
the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the
world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the
long winter evenings.
 Whitehead
A.N.
You can fool all the people all of the time if the advertising is right
and the budget is big enough.
 Whitehead
Alfred North
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
 Whitehead
Alfred North
In my end is my beginning.
 Whitehorn
Katharine
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to
examine the laws of heat.
 Who
Dr.
They can't stop us... we're on a mission from God!
 Whorfin
Lord John
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for
lists of "Ten Best".
 Wicker
Tom
We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.
 Wicker
Tom
Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
 Wicker
Tom
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
 Wier
Bob
The only promotion rules I can think of are that a sense of shame is to
be avoided at all costs and there is never any reason for a hustler to
be less cunning than more virtuous men. Oh yes ... whenever you think
you've got something really great, a Wiggam
Alfred E.
The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go
to erase it.
 Wilde
Oscar
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.
 Wilde
Oscar
Set the cart before the horse.
 Wilde
Oscar
If a thing's worth having, it's worth cheating for.
 Wilde
Oscar
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
 Wilde
Oscar
Either I'm dead or my watch has stopped.
 Wilde
Oscar
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
 Wilde
Oscar
To every Ph.D. there is an equal and opposite Ph.D.
 Wilde
Oscar
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither
oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
 Wilde
Oscar
Before he became a hermit, Zarathud was a young Priest, and
took great delight in making fools of his opponents in front of
his followers.
One day Zarathud took his students to a pleasant pasture and
there he confronted The Sacred Chao while She  Wilde
Oscar
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing
of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur
of this life.
 Wilde
Oscar
Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.
[There is no great genius without some touch of madness.]
 Wilde
Oscar
Faith is under the left nipple.
 Wilde
Oscar
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
 Wilde
Oscar
If you want divine justice, die.
 Wilde
Oscar
Pauca sed matura.
[Few but excellent.]
 Wilde
Oscar
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
 Wilde
Oscar
When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers.
 Wilde
Oscar
In "King Henry VI, Part II," Shakespeare has Dick Butcher suggest to
his fellow anti-establishment rabble-rousers, "The first thing we do, let's
kill all the lawyers." That action may be extreme but a similar sentiment
was expressed by Thomas K. Co Wilde
Oscar
"Well, if you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what *___can*
you believe?!"
 Wilde
Oscar
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
 Wilde
Oscar
"We're not talking about the same thing," he said. "For you the world is
weird because if you're not bored with it you're at odds with it. For me
the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious,
unfathomable; my interest has been to  Wilde
Oscar
Getting into trouble is easy.
 Wilde
Oscar
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
 Wilde
Oscar
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the
other is to read Pope.
 Wilde
Oscar
At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all
my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my
ignorance upon the shore.
 Wilde
Oscar
"I have to convince you, or at least snow you ..."
 Wilde
Oscar
NEW YORK Wilde
Oscar
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
 Wilde
Oscar
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, Wilde
Oscar
Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but
when there is no longer anything to take away.
 Wilde
Oscar
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature
replaces it with.
 Wilde Oscar
There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital
and labour. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting
each other's throat.
 Wilde Oscar
Look ere ye leap.
 Wilde Oscar
My father was a creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my
family, it seems, begins where yours left off.
 Wilde Oscar
Rome was not built in one day.
 Wilde Oscar
God helps them that help themselves.
 Wilde Oscar
Goals... Plans... they're fantasies, they're part of a dream world...
 Wilder
Billy
Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about
can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.
 Wilder
Billy
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
 Will
George
Most general statements are false, including this one.
 Will
George
A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
 Willard F. Libby
The cart has no place where a fifth wheel could be used.
 William
We have art that we do not die of the truth.
 William Gibson
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to
examine the laws of heat.
 William S. Paley
Catharsis is something I associate with pornography and crossword puzzles.
 William Shakespeare
Some men are heterosexual, and some are bisexual, and some men don't think
about sex at all... they become lawyers.
 William Shakespeare
The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability
and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but
money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.
 William Shakespeare
Neckties strangle clear thinking.
 William Shakespeare
There's no such thing as an original sin.
 William Shakespeare
It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works
and has his being.
 Williams
H.H.
What we do not understand we do not possess.
 Williams
Robin
Practice yourself what you preach.
 Williams
Tennessee
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
 Williams Robin
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some
kind of loophole.
 Williamson
Ren'e de Visme
"You boys lookin' for trouble?"
"Sure. Whaddya got?"
 Williamson
Nicol
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
 Williamson Dr. Paul
In "King Henry VI, Part II," Shakespeare has Dick Butcher suggest to
his fellow anti-establishment rabble-rousers, "The first thing we do, let's
kill all the lawyers." That action may be extreme but a similar sentiment
was expressed by Thomas K. Co Willie Sutton
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a
fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
 Wills
Derek
Men are superior to women.
 Wilson
Earl
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.
 Wilson
Earl
Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work,
work till we die.
 Wilson
Edmund
I always wake up at the crack of ice.
 Wilson
Woodrow
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
 Wilson Robert
I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were all
these aisles and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these
kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and
I wasn't tempted to buy Win Sir
Life is the living you do, Death is the living you don't do.
 Winch
Marty
Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by
no means the only 'certain' standard. If you mistake what is relative for
something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
 Winchell
Walter
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.
 Windsor-Heights
Today's thrilling story has been brought to you by Mushies, the great new
cereal that gets soggy even without milk or cream. Join us soon for more
spectacular adventure starring... Tippy, the Wonder Dog!
 Winkle
R.V.
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.
 Winston
Three o'clock in the afternoon is always just a little too late or a little
too early for anything you want to do.
 Winston
We are not a loved organization, but we are a respected one.
 Winters
George
If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius  Winters
Shelley
"Cogito ergo I'm right and you're wrong."
 Wittgenstein
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education
is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get
when you don't.
 Wittgenstein
We'll be recording at the Paradise Friday night. Live, on the Death label.
 Wittgenstein.
Do not use that foreign word "ideals". We have that excellent native
word "lies".
 Wo Sir Henry
Briefly stated, the findings are that when presented with an array of
data or a sequence of events in which they are instructed to discover
an underlying order, subjects show strong tendencies to perceive order
and causality in random arrays, to perc Wodehouse
Sean O'Casey on P.G.
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ...
in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent
to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who
have not yet reached their  Wolfe
Nero
VI:
A hungry dog hunts best.
A hungrier dog hunts even better.
VII:
Decreased business base increases overhead.
So does increased business base.
VIII:
The most unsuccessful four years in the education of a cost-estimator
is fifth grade ari Wolfe
Nero
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
 Wolfe
Thomas
Let's say your wedding ring falls into your toaster, and when you stick
your hand in to retrieve it, you suffer Pain and Suffering as well as
Mental Anguish. You would sue:
* The toaster manufacturer, for failure to include, in the instructions
 Wolfe Gene
The time spent on any item of the agenda [of a finance committee] will be
in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
 Wolfe Nero
Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to
know the answers.
 Wood
Grant
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
 Woody Allen
Brahma said: Well, after hearing ten thousand explanations, a fool is no
wiser. But an intelligent man needs only two thousand five hundred.
 Woody Allen
I went into a bar feeling a little depressed, the bartender said,
"What'll you have, Bud"?
I said," I don't know, surprise me".
So he showed me a nude picture of my wife.
 Woody Allen
To teach is to learn twice.
 Wordsworth
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.
 Wright
Frank Lloyd
Why are you doing this to me?
Because knowledge is torture, and there must be awareness before
there is change.
 Wright
Frank Lloyd
"There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial:
both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to
talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him
during the trial."
 Wright
Frank Lloyd
A place for everything and everything in its place.
 Wurster Hall
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