Sunday, March 28, 2010

Top Ten Funny Quotes

  1. "Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love!"
    Short and funny quote by, Homer J Simpson.



  2. "When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car"
    Short funny quotes, Unknown.



  3. "I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house."
    Short funny quotes by, Zsa Zsa Gabor



  4. "I remmember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof."
    Short and funny quotes, Rodney Dangerfield



  5. "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world," Calvin.


  6. "Isn't your pants' zipper supposed to be in the front?" Hobbes.
    Short and funny quotes, Calvin and Hobbes.



  7. "Cheese… milk's leap toward immortality."
    Short and funny quote by, Clifton Fadiman.



  8. "Never stand between a dog and the hydrant."
    Short Funny Quote by, John Peers.



  9. "You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax, tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough."
    - Short and funny quote by, Pearl Williams.



  10. "Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh man....I could be eating a slow learner."
    Short and funny quote by, Lyndon B. Johnson.



  11. "He's so optimistic he'd buy a burial suit with two pairs of pants."
    Short and funny quote by, Chuck Tanner.

Cute Friendship Quotes

Cute Friendship Quotes

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A faithful friend is a strong defense; and he that hath found him hath found a treasure."
Louisa May Alcott

"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Never take friendship for granted, you never know what tomorrow holds."
Catherine Pulsifer

"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."
Henry Ward Beecher

"Distrust is poison to friendship."
Danish Proverb

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
Charles C. Colton

"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!"
Washington Irving

"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."
Thomas Edison

Deep and Meaningful Quotes

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
Barbara Bush

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Betty Smith

When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself.
Confucius

Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different.
Author Unknown

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.”
Mahummad Ali

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Dalai Lama

Inspirational Quotes about Quotations

Inspirational Quotes about Quotations

"Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders."
Chriswell Freeman

"Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author."
Samuel Johnson

"I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."
Robert Burns

"Life itself is a quotation."
Jorge Luis Borges

"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
Amos Bronson Alcott

"A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool."
Joseph Roux

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations."
William Feather

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."
Sir Winston Churchill

"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."
Marlene Dietrich

"The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A quote can change the way you think about challenges you face."
Catherine Pulsifer

"I quote others only to better express myself."
Michel Montaigne

"A book of quotations, can never be complete."
Robert M. Hamilton

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. "
George Bernard Shaw

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."
Douglas Jerrold


Benjamin Disraeli once said, "The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation." We agree there are many that contain wisdom and experience in them. And, Michel de Montaigne said, "When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. We believe this as they can help express a thought or an idea that you just can't find the right words to express.

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotations


It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli

You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.

Author Unknown

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave.
Publius Terence

He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.

Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.

Matthew Prior

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley


Happiness Quotes

Happiness Quotes


When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Aristotle

Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
George Matthew Allen

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Albert Schweitzer


There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns, Intimate Connections

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.
John M. Good

Men spend their lives in anticipations,in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realising that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
from How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Epictetus

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mills

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Robert F. Kennedy

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
William Ellery Channing

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Ghandi

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry W. Longfellow

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit Senn

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Thomas Fuller

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana

No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus


Quotes about life

Dost thou love life?
Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharal Nehru

Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.
Alexis

Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently.
Palladas

The geat blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
Seneca
(7 B.C. - 65 A.D.)

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
Thomas Fuller

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure.
Kal Menninger

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
Hypocrites

After the game,
the king and the pawn go into the same box.

Italian Proverb

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
La Bruyere

Life is like a library owned by the author.
In it are a few books which he wrote himself,
but most of them were written for him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

We make our fortunes, and we call them fate.
Earl of Beaconsfield

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
Elbert Hubbard

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.
Herman Melville

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
Plutarch

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
George William Curtis

The boundaries which divide life from death
are at best shadowy and vague.
Who shall say where one ends,
and the other begins?
Edgar Alan Poe

One way to get the most out of life is
to look upon it as an adventure.

William Feather

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke

To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler

One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities.
Thomas Carlyle

Life is a pure flame,
and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Sir Thomas Brown