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- *mmddyyyy Sample Reminders
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- ! 27 Pay the mortgage!
- R0128 Mom's Birthday February 5th
- R0226 Alyssa's Birthday March 4th
- R0501 Daryl's Birthday May 9th
- R0917 Dad's Brithday September 23rd
- R0310 Taxes in one month!
- R0414 Taxes due tomorrow!
- R0415 Taxes due by midnite!
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- * These sayings come from four sources:
- * The Speaker's Desk Book (1937)
- * Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1944)
- * A program called HI (no author or history known)
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- Q0101 Minds are like parachutes, they only work when open.
- Q0102 Every Titanic has its iceberg.
- Q0103 An honest politician: One who stays bought.
- Q0104 A closed mouth gathers no foot.
- Q0105 What`s the most popular form of birth control? The headache.
- Q0106 Clean mind, clean body: take your pick.
- Q0107 Whatever advice you give, be brief.
- Q0108 He who laughs last probably doesn`t understand the joke.
- Q0109 Let he who takes the plunge remember to return it by Tuesday.
- Q0110 If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.
- Q0111 When in doubt, make it sound convincing.
- Q0112 A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.
- Q0113 When all else fails, read the directions.
- Q0114 If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
- Q0115 If reality wants to get in touch with me, it knows where I am.
- Q0116 When forced to choose between two evils, try the new one.
- Q0201 Every human being comes equipped with a brain at no extra cost.
- Q0202 To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.
- Q0203 To save one life is better than to build a seven story pagoda.
- Q0204 To criticize the incompetent is easy; it is more difficult, to criticize the competent.
- Q0205 There`s so much to say but your eyes keep interrupting me.
- Q0206 There`s at least one fool in every married couple.
- Q0207 There is always someone worse off than yourself.
- Q0208 The wise shepherd never trusts his flock to a smiling wolf.
- Q0209 The weed of crime bears bitter fruit.
- Q0210 Statistics are often used as a drunk uses a light pole: For support rather than illumination.
- Q0301 The plural of spouse is spice.
- Q0302 The only rose without thorns is friendship.
- Q0303 The minute a man is convinced that he is interesting, he isn`t.
- Q0304 The light of a hundred stars doesn't equal the light of the moon.
- Q0305 He who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn`t been asleep.
- Q0306 The hardest thing to do is to disquise your feelings when sending a large crowd of visiting relatives home.
- Q0307 The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
- Q0308 The best prophet of the future is the past.
- Q0309 The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
- Q0310 The attacker must vanquish; the defender need only survive.
- Q0401 The average woman would rather be beautiful than smart because the average man can see better than he can think.
- Q0402 That must be wonderful! I dont understand it at all.
- Q0403 Someone whom you reject today, will reject you tomorrow.
- Q0404 Someone is speaking well of you.
- Q0405 Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall.
- Q0406 No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
- Q0426 Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
- Q0501 Some men are discovered; others are found out.
- Q0502 Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
- Q0503 When all is said and done, too many people keep on saying and doing.
- Q0504 Fame is proof that people are gullible.
- Q0505 We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
- Q0506 No really great man every thought himself so.
- Q0507 There is as much greatness in acknowledging a good turn, as there is in doing it.
- Q0508 Beware of hip and rum drivers.
- Q0509 Home to a young boy is merely a filling station.
- Q0510 Early to rise and ditto to bed, make a man healthy, but socially dead.
- Q0511 Beware the man who can't be bothered with details.
- Q0512 Nothing beats reading a good book when there is work to do.
- Q0513 While forbidden fruit may be sweeter, it spoils faster.
- Q0514 You're smart when you only believe half of what you hear, Wise is when you know which half to believe.
- Q0515 A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Q0528 When seeking love give nothing, Having found love give all.
- Q0530 In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the bow, Pleasure at the helm.
- Q0531 If she had lumbago she couldn't sing a note.
- Q0601 Show affection, it will probably meet with pleasant response.
- Q0602 Share your happiness with others today.
- Q0603 She`s learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time trying to put into words.
- Q0604 Put your brain in gear before starting your mouth.
- Q0605 People will buy anything that`s one to a customer.
- Q0606 Ours is a world where people don`t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
- Q0607 One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true.
- Q0608 One family builds a wall, two families enjoy it.
- Q0609 Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal.
- Q0610 Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
- Q0611 Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
- Q0612 No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
- Q0613 Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
- Q0614 Mistakes are oft the stepping stones to failure.
- Q0615 Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
- Q0616 Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca.
- Q0617 Matrimony is the root of all evil.
- Q0618 Many a family tree needs trimming.
- Q0619 Man and wife make one fool.
- Q0620 Man`s horizons are bounded by his vision.
- Q0621 Make new friends but keep the old, One is silver the other gold.
- Q0622 Make a wish, it might come true.
- Q0623 Love is sentimental measles.
- Q0624 Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
- Q0625 Lend money to a bad debtor and he will hate you.
- Q0626 Let he who takes the plunge remember to return it by Tuesday.
- Q0627 Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
- Q0628 The heart is wiser than the intellect.
- Q0629 May the force be with you.
- Q0630 It`s a poor workman who blames his tools.
- Q0701 It`s clever, but is it art?
- Q0702 It is far better to be deceived than to be undeceived by those we love.
- Q0703 It is Fortune, not wisdom that rules man`s life.
- Q0704 The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
- Q0705 If you wish to succeed, consult three old people.
- Q0706 If you make a mistake, immediately fix it to the best of your ability.
- Q0707 If you continually give you will continually have.
- Q0708 Quit work and play for once.
- Q0709 If you always postpone pleasure you will never have it.
- Q0710 I`ve given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
- Q0711 The orator speaks, with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
- Q0712 He who is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
- Q0713 He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
- Q0714 He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
- Q0715 He walks as if balancing the family tree on his nose.
- Q0716 He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another`s mishap.
- Q0717 He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
- Q0718 Even a hawk is an eagle among crows.
- Q0719 By following the good, you learn to be good.
- Q0720 Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear through.
- Q0721 An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
- Q0722 The picture of health requires a happy frame of mind.
- Q0723 All who would win joy must share it, happiness was born a twin.
- Q0724 No one is so happy or sad as he imagines.
- Q0725 Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
- Q0726 An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
- Q0727 He cannot rule the great who cannot rule the small.
- Q0728 No facts are sacred, none are profane.
- Q0729 Faith will not die while seed catalogs are printed.
- Q0730 Public speaking takes a two minute idea, and a two hour vocabulary.
- Q0731 All work and no play makes jack. And lots of it.
- Q0801 God gives us relatives; thank God we can chose our friends.
- Q0802 Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
- Q0803 Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
- Q0804 Everything bows to success, even grammar.
- Q0805 Everyone complains of his memory, no one of his judgment.
- Q0806 Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark.
- Q0807 Cheap things are of no value, valuable things are not cheap.
- Q0808 Behind every argument is someone`s ignorance.
- Q0809 Beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.
- Q0810 A wise man can see more from a the bottom of a well than a fool can see from a mountaintop.
- Q0811 Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
- Q0812 Only the doctor can suffer from good health.
- Q0813 Communism will work when love, not greed, inspires it.
- Q0814 Democracy will continue as long as people have faith in the people they are going to elect next.
- Q0815 The desire to work is confined to classified ads.
- Q0816 God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.
- Q0817 Thrift is a wonderful virtue - in an ancestor.
- Q0818 If we were intended to talk more than we hear, we'd have two mouths and only one ear.
- Q0819 Better to be religious with your eloquence, than eloquent with your religion.
- Q0820 Freedom has a thousand charms to show, that slaves, however content, will never know.
- Q0821 The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our change.
- Q0822 Of all the ills that men endure, hope is the only cheap and universal cure.
- Q0823 If you bow at all, bow low.
- Q0824 Toil is most pleasant when done.
- Q0825 Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more.
- Q0826 A minister says matrimony should be enduring. It is.
- Q0827 No man can serve two masters, yes-men can serve hundreds.
- Q0828 A good man gone wrong is usually a bad man found out.
- Q0829 Losing weight: the triumph of mind over platter.
- Q0830 To get ahead and stay ahead, use your head.
- Q0831 A fool and his money are invited everywhere.
- Q0901 Do not clog intellect`s sluices with knowledge of questionable uses.
- Q0902 Deprive a mirror of its silver and even the Czar won`t see his face.
- Q0903 Creditors have much better memories than debtors.
- Q0904 A man without a God is like a fish without a bicycle.
- Q0905 A plucked goose doesn`t lay golden eggs.
- Q0906 Hearts will never be practical til they're unbreakable.
- Q0907 They do not love that do not show their love.
- Q0908 Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
- Q0909 Honi soit qui mal y pense. (Shamed be he who thinks evil of it.)
- Q0910 Ideals kill some men in politics, but politics kill more ideals in men.
- Q0911 Ignorance is the mother of superstition.
- Q0912 No woman should imitate men; men are not worth it.
- Q0913 At 18, I was ashamed of how ignorant my father was. At 21, I was amazed at how much he had learned in three years.
- Q0914 Most campaign literature is an insult to intelligence. Sad that many never realize it.
- Q0915 You can judge a man by how he keeps his golf score.
- Q0916 America did not invent human rights, Human Rights invented America.
- Q0917 The reason people blame things on previous generations? There's only one other choice!
- Q0918 Inflation is when the buck doesn't stop anywhere.
- Q0922 One disadvantage of having nothing to do: You can't stop and rest.
- Q0923 Real love stories have no endings.
- Q1001 Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
- Q1002 Justice delayed is justice denied.
- Q1003 They know enough who know how to learn.
- Q1004 The laborer is worthy of his hire, if his labor is.
- Q1005 Love is blind, to everything except fat.
- Q1006 A husband is the medicine that cures all the ills of girlhood.
- Q1007 Pale ink beats a good memory.
- Q1008 Would that government spent our money like it was their own.
- Q1009 Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
- Q1010 If you want the last word with a woman, apologize.
- Q1011 Just because he's on the road, it doesn't mean his mind is.
- Q1012 Death and taxes may always be with us, But at least death doesn't get any worse.
- Q1101 A guy has to get fresh once in a while so a girl doesn't lose her confidence.
- Q1102 I ain`t broke, but I`m badly bent.
- Q1103 The best government teaches us to govern ourselves.
- Q1104 The bigger the bankroll, the tighter the band around it.
- Q1105 Are you a good witch, or are you a bad witch?
- Q1106 Blessed are the peacemakers, they will never want for work.
- Q1107 Bachelor's wives and spinster's children are always perfect.
- Q1108 Better the shoulder to the wheel than the back to the wall.
- Q1109 Whatever you have, spend less.
- Q1110 In fashion be a reed in the wind, In principles be a rock in the stream.
- Q1111 He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
- Q1112 The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
- Q1113 Learning music by reading about it, Is like making love by mail.
- Q1114 Think you've got influence? Try commanding someone else's dog.
- Q1121 Character is what you know you are, Not what others think you are.
- Q1125 Don't need a new religion, haven't used the old one up yet.
- Q1126 There are two sides to every question, politicians take both.
- Q1127 Politics is either passing the buck or passing the dough.
- Q1128 To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
- Q1129 Never despair. If you do, you work on in despair.
- Q1130 Too many pray for peace with their fists clenched.
- Q1201 Two wrongs do not make a right, it usually takes three or more.
- Q1202 Lost interest? It`s so bad I`ve lost apathy.
- Q1203 The greatest programming project of all took six days; on the seventh day the programmer rested.
- Q1204 The only red menace in America is the sunburn.
- Q1205 Every noble work is at first impossible.
- Q1206 To reform a man, begin with his grandmother.
- Q1207 No man's religion ever survives his morals.
- Q1208 Who to himself is law, no law doth need.
- Q1209 Selfishness is that vice we see in others, never in ourselves.
- Q1210 Equality of the sexes leaves women standing on buses.
- Q1211 Never borrow trouble, the interest is entirely too high.
- Q1212 To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
- Q1213 It is better to live rich than to die rich.
- Q1223 Take a lesson from the weather: It pays no attention to criticism.
- Q1228 No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
- Q1229 You are not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
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