Quotes & Phrases

Cynicism & Insults

2007-03-09T17:52:00.000+05:30

Thank you for not annoying me more than you do.If I throw a stick, will you go away?Any similarity between you and a human is purely coincidental!Anyone who told you to be yourself couldn't have given you worse advice.A mind is a terrible thing to waste; I'm glad they didn't waste one on you.I'd like to help you out; which way did you come in?"Oh my God, look at you. Anyone else hurt in the

Quotations for St. Valentines Day

2007-02-08T19:40:00.000+05:30

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths, No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a qaurter of a century.-Mark Twain “To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine.”-William ShakespeareLove is like standing in wet cement, the longer you stay the harder is to leave and

Sarcastic Responses

2007-01-16T03:23:00.000+05:30

1. At the movies:When you meet acquaintances/ friends.. .Stupid Question:- Hey, what are you doing here?Answer:- Dont u know, I sell tickets in black over here...2. In the bus:A heavy lady wearing pointed high-heeled shoes steps on your feet...Stupid Question:- Sorry, did that hurt?Answer:- No, not at all, I'm on local anesthesia.. ...why don't youtry again.3. At a funeral:One of the teary-eyed

Quotes & Quotations

2007-01-03T22:06:00.001+05:30

• Women aren't that bad, but wives...! • Your lucky number is 6478389077163. Watch for it everywhere. • If I wanted to hear from an ass, I would fart. • I'm fighting the urge to make you the happiest woman on earth tonight. • You know, if I were you, I'd have sex with me. • Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range. -Scott E

'The Simpsons' Quotes

2007-01-03T21:36:00.000+05:30

“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.”-Matt Groening, "Life in Hell"“Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it?”-Matt Groening, The Simpsons“All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat!?' I'm trying to impress

Quotes by William Shakespeare

2007-01-03T21:29:00.000+05:30

“A wretched soul,bruised with adversity,We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.” -William Shakespeare “Action is eloquence.” -William Shakespeare “And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection,I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know

Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

2007-01-03T21:25:00.000+05:30

“A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor liess, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.” -George Bernard Shaw “A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.” -George Bernard Shaw “A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” -George

Quotes by Sir Winston Churchill

2007-01-03T21:19:00.000+05:30

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.” -Sir Winston Churchill “A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.” -Sir Winston Churchill “All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” -Sir Winston Churchill “Although prepared for

Quotes by Mark Twain

2007-01-03T21:15:00.000+05:30

“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.” -Mark Twain“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” -Mark Twain “Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.” -Mark Twain “Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish

Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

2007-01-03T21:10:00.000+05:30

“A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson “A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson “A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” -Ralph Waldo

Quotes by Oscar Wilde

2007-01-03T21:05:00.000+05:30

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.” -Oscar Wilde “A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.” -Oscar Wilde “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” -Oscar Wilde “America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.” -Oscar Wilde “America is the only country that went from

Quotes by John F. Kennedy

2007-01-03T21:02:00.000+05:30

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” -John F. Kennedy “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” -John F. Kennedy “If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.” -John F. Kennedy “Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in

Quotes by Plato

2007-01-03T20:58:00.000+05:30

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” -Plato “Death is not the worst than can happen to men.” -Plato “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.” -Plato “Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.” -Plato “Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one

Quotes by Martin Luther King Jr.

2007-01-03T20:55:00.000+05:30

“All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.” -Martin Luther King Jr. “Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.” -Martin Luther King Jr. “I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality

Quotes by Woody Allen

2007-01-03T20:52:00.000+05:30

“As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.” -Woody Allen “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” -Woody Allen “Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.” -Woody Allen “His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.” -Woody Allen “How can I believe in God

Quotes by Sophocles

2007-01-03T20:34:00.000+05:30

“A short saying oft contains much wisdom.” -Sophocles “Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.” -Sophocles “Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.” -Sophocles “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” -Sophocles “The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”

Quotes by Sir Francis Bacon

2007-01-03T20:31:00.000+05:30

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” -Sir Francis Bacon “By far the best proof is experience.” -Sir Francis Bacon “Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.” -Sir Francis Bacon “Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most

Quotes by Lao-tzu

2007-01-03T20:29:00.000+05:30

“Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.” -Lao-tzu “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” -Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu “He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.” -Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu “He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.” -Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu “He who loves the world as his body may be

Quotes by G. K. Chesterton

2007-01-03T20:26:00.000+05:30

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober." -G. K. Chesterton “A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.” -G. K. Chesterton “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly

Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

2007-01-03T20:24:00.000+05:30

“As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt “Be sincere; be brief; be seated.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt “I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two

Quotes by Euripides

2007-01-03T20:20:00.000+05:30

“Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.” -Euripides “Do not consider painful what is good for you.” -Euripides “Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.”-Euripides “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” -Euripides “The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you

Quotes by Robert Frost

2007-01-03T19:48:00.000+05:30

“A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.” -Robert Frost “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” -Robert Frost “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” -Robert Frost “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” -Robert Frost “I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the

Quotes by Nelson Mandela

2007-01-03T19:46:00.000+05:30

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” -Nelson Mandela “I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.” -Nelson Mandela “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” -Nelson Mandela, 'A Long Walk to

Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

2007-01-03T19:42:00.000+05:30

“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”-Mahatma Gandhi“As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.”-Mahatma Gandhi“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”-Mahatma Gandhi“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in

Quotes by George Carlin

2007-01-03T19:40:00.000+05:30

“As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.” -George Carlin “Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.” -George Carlin “Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.” -George Carlin “I think it's the duty of the comedian to find