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The gods play games with men as balls. -Titus Maccius Platus
He was a wise man who invented God. -Plato
Plato is a bore. -Nietzsche
Man is a god in ruins. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
God has always been hard on the poor. -Jean Paul Marat
Religions change; beer and wine remain. -Harvey Allen
Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. -R.Neville
Life is what happens while you are making other plans. -J.Lennon
There is more to life than increasing speed.
If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No." -M.Smith
Is life worth living? That depends on the liver. -Unknown
In the long run we are all dead. -John Maynard Keynes
The best way to get praise is to die. -Italian proverb
Death is nature's way of saying "Howdy." -Unknown
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
One murder makes a villian, millions a hero. -Beilby Porteus
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. -Groucho Marx
This poem will never reach its destination. -Voltaire
Only the mediocre are always at their best. -Jean Giraudoux
I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
For every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies. -L.Sterne
Wit is educated insolence. -Aristotle
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. -Oscar Wilde
He who laughs, lasts. -Mary Pettibone Poole
I hate definitions. -Benjamin Disraeli
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. O.Wilde
Like all self-made men he worships his creator. -Unknown
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. -Gore Vidal
Don't be humble. You're not that great. -Golda Meir
Stop crime at its source! Support Planned Parenthood. -R.Byrne
When turkeys mate they think of swans. -Johnny Carson
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
All children are essentially criminal. -Denis Diderot
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. -Plato
Thank God kids never mean well. -Lily Tomlin
I hate quotations. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Familiarity breeds contempt. -Goodman Ace
Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling. -Unknown
If it weren't for pickpockets I'd have no sex life at all.
What men desire is a virgin who is a whore. -Edward Dahlberg
Women who miscalculate are called "mothers". -Abigail Van Buren
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations. -St.Augustine
Love is a grave mental disease. -Plato
Love will find a lay. -Robert Byrne
Marriage is not a word but a sentence. -Unknown
We want playmates we can own. -Jules Feiffer on marriage
It was so cold I almost got married. -Shelley Winters
I married beneath me. All women do. -Nancy, Lady Astor
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. -Woody Allen
Divorce is the sacrament of adultery. -French proverb
Take my wife ... please! -Henny Youngman
My work is done, why wait? -Suicide note by George Eastman
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. P.Villa
The reverse side also has a reverse side. -Japanese proverb
Tell the truth and run. -Yugoslavian proverb
Too clever is dumb. -German proverb
The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch. -Old saying
When the cat and mouse agree, the grocer is ruined. -Proverb
Wise men make proverbs but fools repeat them. -Samuel Palmer
Nobody has ever bet enough on the winning horse. -R. Sasuly
All life is six to five against. -Damon Runyon
What a time! What a civilization! -Cicero
Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is! -Catullus
Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless. -Tolstoy on Shakespeare
Inflation has gone up over a dollar a quart. -W.C. Fields
They talk of my drinking but never my thrist. Scottish proverb
Harding was not a bad man, he was just a slob. -Alice Roosevelt
He speaks to me as if I were a public meeting. -Queen Victoria
John Foster Dulles. -Mort Sahl when asked for something funny
I would have made a good Pope. -Richard Nixon
Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair. -Johnny Carson
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
The more the change, the more it is the same thing. -A. Karr
Who shall guard the guardians themselves? -Juvenal
Where is everybody? -Carl Sandburg
We're all on the same side - we're out to get me. -B.Schneider
We are all born mad. Some remain so. -Samuel Beckett
We stand for the maintenance of private property. -Adolf Hitler
Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork? -Stanislaw Lec
Planned obsolescence is another word for progress. -James Roche
Progress? Nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.
You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.
A problem well stated is a problem half solved. -C.F.Kettering
We are confronted by a condition, not a theory. -G. Cleveland
Planned public relations is usually a stepchild of conflict.
Advertizing is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
Think like a man of action act like a man of thought. -H.Bergson
When you see a snake never mind where it came from. -W.G.Benham
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. -T.H.Huxley
Integrity has no need of rules. -Albert Camus
The discipline of desire is the background of character. J.Locke
Character is destiny. -Heraclitus
What we need is a flexible plan for an everchanging world.
There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitus
It is the most unhappy people who most fear change. M.McLaughlin
The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial. -Tom Smothers
The only paradise is paradise lost. -Marcel Proust
Historical reminder: always put Horace before Descartes.
Most of our future lies ahead. -Denny Crum, Louisville coach
For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord. -Unknown
The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign. -H.L. Mencken
Hemingway was a jerk. -Harold Robbins
I'm not going to climb into the ring with Tolstoy. -E.Hemingway
Marie Osmond makes Mother Teresa look like a slut. -Joan Rivers
It is fun being in the same decade with you. -FDR to Churchill
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -N. Bonaparte
Don't jump on a man unless he's down. -Finley Peter Dunne
Before they made S.J. Perelman they broke the mold. -Unknown
Here's to our wives and sweethearts--may they never meet.
Man Robs, Then Kills Himself. Headline in Vancouver Province
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.
Sleep is an 8 hour peep show of infantile erotica. -J.G.Ballard
Status quo. Latin for the mess we're in. -Jeve Moorman
Silence is an argument carried on by other means. -Che Guevara
Honesty is the best image. -Ziggy (Tom Wilson)
Ford used to have a better idea; now they don't have a clue.
The nail that sticks up gets hammered down. -Japanese proverb
When in doubt, duck. -Malcolm Forbes
Only dead fish swim with the stream. -Unknown
Ya gotta do what ya gotta do. -Sylvester Stallone in Rocky IV
All movements go too far. -Bertrand Russell
Flies spread disease--keep yours zipped. -Unknown
There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting.
Gifts are like hooks. -Martial
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little. -Gore Vidal
Everything changes but the avant garde. -Paul Valery
This isn't much of a quote book if I'm in it. -Richard Dowd
Praise and criticism are both frauds. -Unknown
Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -H.L. Mencken
Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon. -T.Lasorda
Why don't you write books people can read? Nora Joyce to James
In six pages I can't even say "hello." -James Michener
Truth is shorter than fiction. -Irving Cohen
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -Churchill
Reagan is proof that there is life after death. -Mort Sahl
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. -Leo Tolstoy
Your public servants serve you right. -Adlai Stevenson
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
A communist is a person who publicly airs his dirty Lenin.
What luck for rulers that men do not think. -Adolf Hitler
Ignore previous cookie. -Message in fortune cookie.
What the hell are you looking at? -License plate slogan
It's a living. -Motto for US Army, suggested by Mort Sahl
You gotta live somewhere. -Motto for Cleveland, by Jimmy Brogan
Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. -Kin Hubbard
The computer is down. I hope it's something serious. S.Delaplane
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein. -Unknown
Art is I; science is we. -Claude Bernard
If you are going to America, bring food. -Fran Lebowitz
Nobody wants justice. -Alan Dershowitz
Agree, for the law is costly. -William Camden
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -Pablo Picasso
How could I lose to such an idiot? -A. Nimzovich, Grandmaster
My toughest fight was with my wife. -Muhammad Ali
Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser. -Unknown
Music is essentially useless, as life is. -George Santayana
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot. -Leo Durocher
Assassins! -Arturo Toscanini to his orchestra
Sometimes too much drink is barely enough. -Mark Twain
Never mistake endurance for hospitality. -Unknown
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. -Plato
In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait. -Jose Simon
Cogito ergo dim sum. -Robert Byrne
An evil mind is a constant solace. -Unknown
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. -St.Augustine
Half the people in America are faking it. -Robert Mitchum
The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -H.L. Mencken
Ignorance is the mother of admiration. -George Chapman
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
Small earthquake in Chile: Not Many Killed. -Suggested headline
The covers of this book are too far apart. -Ambrose Bierce
Schizophrenia beats dining alone. -Unknown
I don't really trust a sane person. -Lyle Alzado
Traffic signals in NY are just rough guidelines. -D. Letterman
We're all in this alone. -Lily Tomlin
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. -Storm Jameson
Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat? -M.Monroe
Where do you go to get anorexia. -Shelly Winters
I eat merely to put food out of my mind. -N.F. Simpson
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet. -Unknown
There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -G.B. Shaw
Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. -Robert Orben
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. -F. Knebel
Avoid running at all times. -Satchel Page
Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion. -Nicolas Boileau
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. -Napoleon
While you're saving your face you're losing your ass. -LBJ
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. -Gilda Radner
The wages of sin are unreported. -Unknown
Behind every great fortune there is a crime. -Honore de Balzac
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? -E.Bergen
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. -C. Lasci
I am a deeply superficial person. -Andy Warhol
Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world. -Richard Armour
Men are creatures with 2 legs and 8 hands. -Jayne Mansfield
Go away. I'm all right. -H.G. Wells last words
Somebody left the cork out of my lunch. -W.C. Fields
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. -Mark Twain
I think the world is run by C students. -Al McGuire
Never have children, only grandchildren. -Gore Vidal
I was toilet trained at gunpoint. -Billy Braver
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. -Spanish proverb
I can't mate in captivity. -Gloria Steinem
It wasn't exactly a divorce... I was traded. -Tim Conway
It is easier to be dishonest for two than for one. -John Fowles
Self-trust is the essence of heroism. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. -F.S. Fitzgerald
History is a bucket of ashes. -Carl Sandburg
History is a set of lies agreed upon. -Napoleon Bonaparte
History is only a confused heap of facts. -Earl of Chesterfield
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. -W+A Durrant
History is bunk! -Henry Ford
History repeats itself because nobody listens.
The men who make history have no time to write about it.
Anyone can make history. Only a great man can write it. -O.Wilde
A house is not a home. -Polly Adler
Honesty is the 1st chapter in the book of wisdom. -T. Jefferson
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. -Norman Cousins
A humanitarian is always a hypocrite. -George Orwell
I believe the 1st test of a truly great man is humility. -Ruskin
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. C.H.Spurgeon
Hypocrisy--prejudice with a halo. -Ambrose Bierce
One may smile, and smile, and be a villian. -William Shakespeare
A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. -B.Disraeli