Quotes!

Aug 05, 2006 21:56

Odd quotes that I have found......................... No actual relevence, but..........

It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

Because it is there.

No one wants advice - only corroboration

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long time.

A man is only as old as the woman he feels.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

All that the young can do for the old is to shock them and keep them up to date.

Each generation imagines itself to be more inteligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Ah! don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving human's too?

Mr Speaker, I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. the honourable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.

Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. the right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

I did not know that we had ever quarrelled.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often unconvincing.

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.

Art is a jealous mistress.

The finest collection of frames I ever saw.

I don't deserve this, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that either.

When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.

Remember that the moest beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies for instance.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

The distance doesn't matter, it is only the first step that is difficult.

And finally people, the last quote for this....... section? Anyway:

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

samurai 7, quotes, samurai 8

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