Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. ~George Savile
Congratulations! You're not perfect! It's ridiculous to want to be perfect anyway. But then, everybody's ridiculous sometimes, except perfect people. You know what perfect is? Perfect is not eating or drinking or talking or moving a muscle or making even the teensiest mistake. Perfect is never doing anything wrong - which means never doing anything at all. Perfect is boring! So you're not perfect! Wonderful! Have fun! Eat things that give you bad breath! Trip over your own shoelaces! Laugh! Let somebody else laugh at you! Perfect people never do any of those things. All they do is sit around and sip weak tea and think about how perfect they are. But they're really not one-hundred-percent perfect anyway. You should see them when they get the hiccups! Phooey! Who needs 'em? You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week. ~Stephen Manes, Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!
Advertising is a bit like playing make-believe. ~Hartman Jule
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne, quoted in 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, 1988
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. ~Colleen McCullough
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. ~Mark Twain
You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God. ~Author Unknown
He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. ~Proverbs 17:9
It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren't so handy in the refrigerator. ~Hugh Allen
More grievous than tears is the sight of them. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. ~Oliver W. Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are. ~Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1899
Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Men are cruel, but Man is kind. ~Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 1916
I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. ~Mary Ellen Mark
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ~Edward R. Murrow
If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is. ~Horace G. Hutchinson
I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ~James Baldwin
I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: He fornicated and read the papers. ~Albert Camus
The obscurest epoch is today. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains
Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. ~Caskie Stinnett
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works. ~William Strong
What good is having someone who can walk on water if you don't follow in his footsteps? ~Author Unknown
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