Quote - Unquote

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
-- Edward Abbey

Maybe the fish goes home and brags about the size of the bait he stole.
-- Anon

Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.
-- Leslie Nielsen

There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
-- Frederick L Collins

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
-- Jane Austen

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
-- Doug Larson

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
-- George Burns

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
-- Laurence J. Peter

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
-- A. J. Liebling

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
-- W. H. Auden

Indecision may or may not be my problem.
-- Jimmy Buffett

A few quotes

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
Niels Bohr

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben

How would you like to be remembered - As someone who did the best with the talent she had.
Anita Roddick

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
Johnny Carson

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Robert Byrne

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
John Benfield

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
Peter De Vries

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
James Thurber

Douglas Adams Quotes

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Quote of the day

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips
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Quote of the Week

“If you don’t take care of your body where will you live?.”

- Unknown

Quote of the Week

“One dies only once and it’s for such a long time.”
- Moliere

Quote of the Week

“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.” - e e cummings