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3001

12 Step Program Of Recovery For Web Addicts

Step 3: I will get dressed before noon.

-- Unknown

3002

12 Step Program Of Recovery For Web Addicts

Step 4: I will make an attempt to clean the house, wash clothes, and plan dinner before even thinking of the Web.

-- Unknown

3003

12 Step Program Of Recovery For Web Addicts

Step 5: I will sit down and write a letter to those unfortunate few friends and family that are Web-deprived.

-- Unknown

3004

12 Step Program Of Recovery For Web Addicts

Step 6: I will call someone on the phone who I cannot contact via the Web.

-- Unknown

3005

12 Step Program Of Recovery For Web Addicts

Step 7: I will read a book...if I still remember how.

-- Unknown

3006

12 Step Program Of Recovery For Web Addicts

Step 8: I will listen to those around me and their needs and stop telling them to turn the TV down so I can hear the music on the Web.

-- Unknown

3007

12 Step Program Of Recovery For Web Addicts

Step 9: I will not be tempted during TV commercials to check for email.

-- Unknown

3008

12 Step Program Of Recovery For Web Addicts

Step 10: I will try and get out of the house at least once a week, if it is necessary or not.

-- Unknown

3009

12 Step Program Of Recovery For Web Addicts

Step 11: I will remember that my bank is not forgiving if I forget to balance my checkbook because I was too busy on the Web.

-- Unknown

3010

12 Step Program Of Recovery For Web Addicts

Step 12: Last, but not least, I will remember that I must go to bed sometime...and the Web will always be there tomorrow!

-- Unknown

3011

A Thought For Today...

A bird in hand is better than one overhead.

-- Unknown

3012
The worst flaw in a leader is ego.

-- The History Channel

3013
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

-- A commercial

3014
A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!!.

-- From a Ziggy comic

3015
How did you remember stuff before there were refrigerator magnets.

-- From a Dennis the Menace comic

3016

You know it's going to be a bad day when...

You want to put on the clothes you wore home from the party, and there aren't any.

-- Unknown

3017

You know it's going to be a bad day when...

You turn on the TV news and they're displaying emergency routes out of your city.

-- Unknown

3018

You know it's going to be a bad day when...

The woman you've been seeing on the side begins to look like your wife.

-- Unknown

3019

You know it's going to be a bad day when...

You wake up to discover that your water bed broke and then you realize that you don't have a water bed.

-- Unknown

3020

You know it's going to be a bad day when...

Your horn goes off accidently and remains stuck as you follow a group of Hell's Angels on the freeway.

-- Unknown

3021

You know it's going to be a bad day when...

Your doctor tells you, "Well, I have bad news and good news...".

-- Unknown

3022

You know it's going to be a bad day when...

You open the paper and find your picture under a caption that reads: "WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE!".

-- Unknown

3023

You know it's going to be a bad day when...

Your ex-lover calls and tells you he has 6 days to live, and that you'd better get the Test.

-- Unknown

3024

You know it's going to be a bad day when...

You wake up at work naked in front of your co-workers.

-- Unknown

3025

You know it's going to be a bad day when...

When someone accuses you of faking humor.

-- Unknown

3026

You know it's going to be a bad day when...

Your lover tells you, "I'm sub-letting another apartment and the movers are here to move me."

-- Unknown

3027

You know it's going to be a bad day when...

You have an appointment in 10 minutes and you just woke up.

-- Unknown

3028

You know it's going to be a bad day when...

You need your chocoholic fix and the government just banned chocolate!.

-- Unknown

3029

You know it's going to be a bad day when...

You have to pay a toll machine 75 cents and all you have is a dime and a 20 dollar bill.

-- Unknown

3030

You might be an internet geek if...

When filling out your driver's license application you give your IP address.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/internetgeek.htm

3031

You might be an internet geek if...

You no longer ask prospective dates what their sign is, instead your line is, "Hi, what's your URL?".

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/internetgeek.htm

3032

You might be an internet geek if...

Instead of calling you to dinner, your spouse sends e-mail.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/internetgeek.htm

3033

You might be an internet geek if...

You're amazed to find out Spam is a food.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/internetgeek.htm

3034

You might be an internet geek if...

You "ping" people to see if they're awake, "finger" them to find out how they are, and "AYT" them to make sure they're listening to you.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/internetgeek.htm

3035

You might be an internet geek if...

You search the Net endlessly hoping to win every silly free T-shirt contest.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/internetgeek.htm

3036

You might be an internet geek if...

You introduce your wife as "my lady@home.wife" and refer to your children as "client applications.".

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/internetgeek.htm

3037

You might be an internet geek if...

At social functions you introduce your husband as "my domain server."

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/internetgeek.htm

3038

You might be an internet geek if...

After winning the office Super Bowl pool you blurt out, "I feel so Colon-Right-Parentheses!"

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/internetgeek.htm

3039

You might be an internet geek if...

Two words: "Pizza's here."

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/internetgeek.htm

3040

One of ten Ways that the Bible would be different if written by College Students...

Loaves and Fishes replaced by Pizza and Chips.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/bible.htm

3041

One of ten Ways that the Bible would be different if written by College Students...

Ten Commandments are actually only five, but because they are double-spaced and written in a large font, they look like ten.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/bible.htm

3042

One of ten Ways that the Bible would be different if written by College Students...

Forbidden fruit would have been eaten because it wasn't dorm food.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/bible.htm

3043

One of ten Ways that the Bible would be different if written by College Students...

Paul's Letters to the Romans become Paul's E-Mail to the Romans.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/bible.htm

3044

One of ten Ways that the Bible would be different if written by College Students...

Reason Cain killed Abel: They were roommates.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/bible.htm

3045

One of ten Ways that the Bible would be different if written by College Students...

The place where the end of the world occurs, not the Plains of Armageddon, rather Finals.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/bible.htm

3046

One of ten Ways that the Bible would be different if written by College Students...

Book of Armaments would be in there somewhere.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/bible.htm

3047

One of ten Ways that the Bible would be different if written by College Students...

Reason why Moses and followers walked in desert for 40 years: They didn't want to ask directions and look like a Freshman.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/bible.htm

3048

One of ten Ways that the Bible would be different if written by College Students...

Tower of Babel blamed for Foreign Language requirement.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/bible.htm

3049

One of ten Ways that the Bible would be different if written by College Students...

Instead of God creating the world in six days and resting on the seventh, He would have put it off until the night before it was due and then pulled an all-nighter and hoped no one noticed.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/bible.htm

3050

Important Rules of Writing...

Just between you and I case is important.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3051

Important Rules of Writing...

Verbs has to agree with their subjects.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3052

Important Rules of Writing...

Watch out for irregular verbs which have crope into our language.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3053

Important Rules of Writing...

Don't use no double negatives.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3054

Important Rules of Writing...

Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3055

Important Rules of Writing...

A writer mustn't shift your point of view.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3056

Important Rules of Writing...

When dangling, don't use participles.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3057

Important Rules of Writing...

Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3058

Important Rules of Writing...

Don't write a run-on sentence you have to punctuate it.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3059

Important Rules of Writing...

About sentence fragments.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3060

Important Rules of Writing...

In a letter themes reports articles and stuff like that we use commas to keep a string of items apart.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3061

Important Rules of Writing...

Don't use commas, which aren't necessary.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3062

Important Rules of Writing...

Its very important that you use apostrophe's right.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3063

Important Rules of Writing...

Don't abbrev.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3064

Important Rules of Writing...

Check to see if you have any words out.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3065

Important Rules of Writing...

As far as incomplete constructions, they are wrong.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3066

Important Rules of Writing...

Never use a preposition to end a sentence with.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3067

Important Rules of Writing...

It is important to never ever under any circumstances split an infinitive.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3068

Important Rules of Writing...

Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3069

Important Rules of Writing...

Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3070

Important Rules of Writing...

Eschew obfuscation.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3071

Important Rules of Writing...

Use of the passive voice is to be avoided.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3072

Important Rules of Writing...

The active voice is preferred.

-- Unknown from http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/rules.htm

3073

Thought for Today:

Depression is merely anger without the enthusiasm.

-- Unknown

3074

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED...

No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats.

-- Unknown

3075

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED...

When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don't let her brush your hair.

-- Unknown

3076

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED...

If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always catch the second person.

-- Unknown

3077

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED...

Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.

-- Unknown

3078

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED...

You can't trust dogs to watch your food.

-- Unknown

3079

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED...

Reading what people write on desks can teach you a lot.

-- Unknown

3080

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED...

Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.

-- Unknown

3081

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED...

Puppies still have bad breath, even after eating a tic-tac.

-- Unknown

3082

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED...

Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time.

-- Unknown

3083

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED...

School lunches stick to the wall.

-- Unknown

3084

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED...

You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.

-- Unknown

3085

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED...

Don't wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts.

-- Unknown

3086

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED...

The best place to be when you're sad is Grandma's lap.

-- Unknown

3087

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED...

Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

-- Unknown

3088

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED...

There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.

-- Unknown

3089

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED...

One reason to smile is that every seven minutes of every day, somebody in an aerobics class pulls a hamstring.

-- Unknown

3090

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED...

Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due.

-- Unknown

3091

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED...

The best way to keep kids at home is to make a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of their tires.

-- Unknown

3092

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED...

Families are like fudge . . . mostly sweet, with a few nuts.

-- Unknown

3093

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED...

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

-- Unknown

3094

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED...

Laughing helps. It's like jogging on the inside.

-- Unknown

3095

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED...

Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.

-- Unknown

3096

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED...

My mind not only wanders; sometimes it leaves completely.

-- Unknown

3097

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED...

If you can remain calm, you just don't have all the facts.

-- Unknown

3098

THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE:

1. You believe in Santa Claus.
2. You don't believe in Santa Claus.
3. You are Santa Claus.
4. You look like Santa Claus.

-- Unknown

3099

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

Dear School: Please excuse John from being absent on Jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and also 33.

-- Unknown

3100

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

Please excuse Dianne from being absent yesterday. She was in bed with gramps.

-- Unknown

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3101

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

Please excuse Johnnie for being. It was his father's fault.

-- Unknown

3102

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

Chris will not be in school because he has an acre in his side.

-- Unknown

3103

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

John has been absent because he had two teeth taken off his face.

-- Unknown

3104

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

Excuse Gloria. She has been under the doctor.

-- Unknown

3105

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

Lillie was absent from school yesterday because she had a going over.

-- Unknown

3106

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

My son is under the doctor's care and should not take fizical ed. Please execute him.

-- Unknown

3107

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

Carlos was absent yesterday because he was playing football. He was hit in the growing part.

-- Unknown

3108

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

My daughter was absent yesterday because she was tired. She spent this weekend with the Marines.

-- Unknown

3109

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

Please excuse Joyce from P.E. for a few days. Yesterday she fell off a tree and misplaced her hip.

-- Unknown

3110

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

Please excuse Ray Friday from school. He has very loose vowels.

-- Unknown

3111

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

Maryann was absent Dec. 11-16, because she had a fever, sore throat, headache, and upset stomach. Her sister was also sick, fever and sore throat, her brother had a low-grade fever. There must be the flu going around, her father even got hot last night.

-- Unknown

3112

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

Please excuse Blanche from jim today. She is administrating.

-- Unknown

3113

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

George was absent yesterday because he had a stomach.

-- Unknown

3114

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

Ralph was absent yesterday because he had a sore trout.

-- Unknown

3115

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

Please excuse Sara for being absent. She was sick and I had her shot.

-- Unknown

3116

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

Please excuse Lupe. She is having problems with her ovals.

-- Unknown

3117

Bad Excuses http://www.cnw.com/~munsey/ariel/excuses2.htm ...

Please excuse Pedro from being absent yesterday. He had diah(*crossed out*), diahoah(*crossed out*), dyah(*crossed out*) the shits.

-- Unknown

3118

Proverbs completed by first graders...

As you shall make your bed so shall you... mess it up.

-- Unknown

3119

Proverbs completed by first graders...

Better be safe than... punch a 5th grader.

-- Unknown

3120

Proverbs completed by first graders...

Strike while the... bug is close.

-- Unknown

3121

Proverbs completed by first graders...

It's always darkest before... daylight savings time.

-- Unknown

3122

Proverbs completed by first graders...

You can lead a horse to water but... how?

-- Unknown

3123

Proverbs completed by first graders...

Don't bite the hand that... looks dirty.

-- Unknown

3124

Proverbs completed by first graders...

A miss is as good as a... Mr.

-- Unknown

3125

Proverbs completed by first graders...

You can't teach an old dog new... math.

-- Unknown

3126

Proverbs completed by first graders...

If you lie down with the dogs, you'll... stink in the morning.

-- Unknown

3127

Proverbs completed by first graders...

The pen is mightier than the... pigs.

-- Unknown

3128

Proverbs completed by first graders...

An idle mind is... the best way to relax.

-- Unknown

3129

Proverbs completed by first graders...

Where there's smoke, there's... pollution.

-- Unknown

3130

Proverbs completed by first graders...

Happy the bride who... gets all the presents.

-- Unknown

3131

Proverbs completed by first graders...

A penny saved is... not much.

-- Unknown

3132

Proverbs completed by first graders...

Two's company, three's... the musketeers.

-- Unknown

3133

Proverbs completed by first graders...

Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and... you have to blow your nose.

-- Unknown

3134

Proverbs completed by first graders...

Children should be seen and not... spanked or grounded.

-- Unknown

3135

Proverbs completed by first graders...

When the blind leadeth the blind... get out of the way.

-- Unknown

3136
"Time's fun when you're having flies."

-- Kermit the Frog

3137
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words.
The Gettysburg Address is 286 words.
There are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence.
But, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.

-- From an article on the growth of federal regulations

3138
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE...
No lines at the Super Walmart.

-- Unknown

3139
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE...
A special glance.

-- Unknown

3140
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE...
Getting E-mail.

-- Unknown

3141
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE...
Taking a drive on a pretty road.

-- Unknown

3142
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE...
Hearing your favorite song on the radio.

-- Unknown

3143
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE...
Lying in bed listening to the rain outside.

-- Unknown

3144
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE...
Hot towels out of the dryer.

-- Unknown

3145
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE...
Finding the sweater you want is on sale for half price.

-- Unknown

3146
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE...
Chocolate milkshake.

-- Unknown

3147
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE...
A long distance phone call.

-- Unknown

3148
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

-- Truman Capote

3149
The words "figure" and "fictitious" both derive from the same Latin root "fingere". Beware!

-- M.J. Moroney

3150
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

-- Lord Salisbury

3151
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

-- Woody Allen

3152
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

-- Tallulah Bankhead

3153
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

-- Thomas Sowell

3154
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

-- Katharine Hepburn

3155
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

-- W. Somerset Maugham

3156
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

-- Wilson Mizner

3157
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

-- Sam Levenson

3158
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

-- Jilly Cooper

3159
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

-- Bill Cosby

3160
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

-- Simeon Strunsky

3161
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

-- Tom Lehrer

3162
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

-- Richard Brinsley Sheriday

3163
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

-- John J. Plomp

3164
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

-- Mark Twain

3165
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.

-- Tommy Lasorda

3166
Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

-- Ambrose Bierce

3167
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

-- Mencius

3168
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

-- Niccolo Machiavelli

3169
Leave no stone unturned.

-- Heraclidae, circa 428 B.C.

3170
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

-- Demosthenes

3171
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

-- Peter F. Drucker

3172
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

-- Oscar Wilde

3173
Last week, I went to Philidelphia, but it was closed.

-- W. C. Fields

3174

From actual classified ads...

Free Yorkshire Terrier.
8 years old. Hateful little dog.

-- Unknown

3175

From actual classified ads...

Free puppies:
1/2 Cocker Spaniel
1/2 sneaky neighbor's dog

-- Unknown

3176

From actual classified ads...

Free puppies... part German Shepherd, part stupid dog.

-- Unknown

3177

From actual classified ads...

Found: dirty white dog.
Looks like a rat...
Been out awhile.
Better be reward.

-- Unknown

3178

From actual classified ads...

1 man, 7 woman hot tub -- $850/offer

-- Unknown

3179

From actual classified ads...

Snow blower for sale... only used on snowy days.

-- Unknown

3180

From actual classified ads...

2 wire mesh butchering gloves:
1 5-finger, 1 3-finger, pair: $15

-- Unknown

3181

From actual classified ads...

Tickle me Elmo, still in box, comes with its own 1988 Mustang, 5L, auto.
Excellent condition $6800

-- Unknown

3182

From actual classified ads...

Cows for sale. Never bred calves.
Also 1 gay bull for sale.

-- Unknown

3183

From actual classified ads...

Full sized mattress. 20 yr. warranty.
Like new. Slight urine smell.

-- Unknown

3184

From actual classified ads...

Nordic Track $300 hardly used, call Chubby

-- Unknown

3185

From actual classified ads...

Bill's septic cleaning.
"We haul american made products."

-- Unknown

3186

From actual classified ads...

Hummels - largest selection ever.
"If it's in stock, we have it!"

-- Unknown

3187

From actual classified ads...

Harrisburg Postal Employees Gun Club.

-- Unknown

3188

From actual classified ads...

Georgia peaches.
California grown - 89 cents lb.

-- Unknown

3189

From actual classified ads...

Nice parachute:
Never opened - used once.

-- Unknown

3190

From actual classified ads...

Tired of working for only $9.75 per hour?
We offer profit sharing and flexible hours.
Starting pay: $7 - $9 per hour.

-- Unknown

3191

From actual classified ads...

Exercise equipment:
Queen size mattress & box springs - $175.

-- Unknown

3192

From actual classified ads...

Our sofa will seat the whole mob.

-- Unknown

3193

From actual classified ads...

Joining nudist colony!
Selling washer & dryer $300.

-- Unknown

3194

From actual classified ads...

Alzheimer's center prepares for an affair to remember.

-- Unknown

3195

From actual classified ads...

Open house:
Body Shapers Toning Salon
Free coffee & donuts.

-- Unknown

3196

From actual classified ads...

For Sale By Owner
Complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica.
45 volumes. Excellent condition.
$1,000.00 negotiable.
No longer needed. Recently married; Wife knows everything.

-- Unknown

3197

Things I wish I'd known before I went out into the real world...

If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance!

-- Unknown

3198

Thought for Today:

The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability.

-- Unknown

3199

Thought for Today:

Police officer dies after being trapped in empty doughnut warehouse 16 days!

-- Unknown

3200

Thought for Today:

"We'll drive off that bridge when we come to it." - T.Kennedy

-- Unknown

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3201
Go do what's right.

-- Dr. Laura

3202
Singers come and go; poets last forever.

-- Merle Haggard

3203
From actual classified ads...

Free Yorkshire Terrier.
8 years old. Hateful little dog.

-- Unknown

3204
From actual classified ads...

Free puppies:
1/2 Cocker Spaniel
1/2 sneaky neighbor's dog

-- Unknown

3205
From actual classified ads...

Free puppies... part German Shepherd, part stupid dog.

-- Unknown

3206
From actual classified ads...

Found: dirty white dog.
Looks like a rat...
Been out awhile.
Better be reward.

-- Unknown

3207
From actual classified ads...

1 man, 7 woman hot tub -- $850/offer

-- Unknown

3208
From actual classified ads...

Snow blower for sale... only used on snowy days.

-- Unknown

3209
From actual classified ads...

2 wire mesh butchering gloves:
1 5-finger, 1 3-finger, pair: $15

-- Unknown

3210
From actual classified ads...

Tickle me Elmo, still in box, comes with its own 1988 Mustang, 5L, auto.
Excellent condition $6800

-- Unknown

3211
From actual classified ads...

Cows for sale. Never bred calves.
Also 1 gay bull for sale.

-- Unknown

3212
From actual classified ads...

Full sized mattress. 20 yr. warranty.
Like new. Slight urine smell.

-- Unknown

3213
From actual classified ads...

Nordic Track $300 hardly used, call Chubby

-- Unknown

3214
From actual classified ads...

Bill's septic cleaning.
"We haul american made products."

-- Unknown

3215
From actual classified ads...

Hummels - largest selection ever.
"If it's in stock, we have it!"

-- Unknown

3216
From actual classified ads...

Harrisburg Postal Employees Gun Club.

-- Unknown

3217
From actual classified ads...

Georgia peaches.
California grown - 89 cents lb.

-- Unknown

3218
From actual classified ads...

Nice parachute:
Never opened - used once.

-- Unknown

3219
From actual classified ads...

Tired of working for only $9.75 per hour?
We offer profit sharing and flexible hours.
Starting pay: $7 - $9 per hour.

-- Unknown

3220
From actual classified ads...

Exercise equipment:
Queen size mattress & box springs - $175.

-- Unknown

3221
From actual classified ads...

Our sofa will seat the whole mob.
100% Italian leather.

-- Unknown

3222
From actual classified ads...

Joining nudist colony!
Selling washer & dryer $300.

-- Unknown

3223
From actual classified ads...

Alzheimer's center prepares for an affair to remember.

-- Unknown

3224
From actual classified ads...

Open house:
Body Shapers Toning Salon
Free coffee & donuts.

-- Unknown

3225
From actual classified ads...

For Sale By Owner
Complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica.
45 volumes. Excellent condition.
$1,000.00 negotiable.
No longer needed. Recently married; Wife knows everything.

-- Unknown

3226
Things I wish I'd known before I went out into the real world....

Living well really is the best revenge.

-- Unknown

3227
Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.

-- Eugene Field

3228
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

-- Dorothy Fisher

3229
My father was often angry when I was most often like him.

-- Harriet Hellman

3230
Children need models more than they need critics.

-- Joseph Joubert

3231
Love is a chain whereby to bind a child to his parents.

-- Abraham Lincoln

3232
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

3233
You should have thought of all this before you were born.

-- N. F. Simpson

3234
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

-- Aesop

3235
The kindest word of all is the unkind one never spoken.

-- Anonymous

3236
Deal as gently with the faults of others as you do your own.

-- Anonymous

3237
They said the baby looked like me. Then they turned him rightside up.

-- Anonymous

3238
We are the people our mothers warned us about.

-- Anonymous

3239
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their children were last night.

-- Anonymous

3240
There is only one way to guide a child down the right path, and that is to go that way yourself.

-- Anonymous

3241
The best thing you can give your children, next to good values, are good memories.

-- Anonymous

3242
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

-- Anonymous

3243
If I had known how much fun grandchildren are, I would have had them first.

-- Anonymous

3244
Grandmothers are antique little girls.

-- Anonymous

3245
Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a Dad.

-- Anonymous

3246
A child is nature's way of giving the world another chance.

-- Anonymous

3247
God couldn't be everywhere, and so He created mothers.

-- Anonymous

3248
Houses are but walls and beams;
Homes are built of love and dreams.

-- Anonymous

3249
Houses are built of wood and stone, but only love can make a home.

-- Anonymous

3250
A joy shared is a joy made double.

-- Anonymous

3251
The best inheritance we can give our children is a few minutes of our time each day.

-- Battista

3252
Genius is childhood recaptured.

-- Baudelaire

3253
Education is not received. It is achieved.

-- Anonymous

3254
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.

-- Anonymous

3255
Teachers have class.

-- Anonymous

3256
Teaching is a work of heart.

-- Anonymous

3257
A school is a building with four walls, and tomorrow inside.

-- Anonymous

3258
A teacher is someone who takes your hand, opens your mind, and touches your heart.

-- Anonymous

3259
Many can teach; only a special few can reach.

-- Anonymous

3260
Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

-- Anonymous

3261
Age withers only the outside.

-- Anonymous

3262
Seeing much, suffering much and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

-- Anonymous

3263
Middle age: When a narrow waist and a broad mind exchange places.

-- Anonymous

3264
Nothing is free, not even age. Age is the fee God charges for life.

-- Anonymous

3265
If you weren't my daughter, you'd still be my best friend.

-- Anonymous

3266
It takes a long time to grow and old friend.

-- Anonymous

3267
To the person who siezes two things, one always slips from his grasp!

-- Anonymous

3268
Conversions Made Easy...

Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi

-- Unknown

3269
Conversions Made Easy...

2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton

-- Unknown

3270
Conversions Made Easy...

1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope

-- Unknown

3271
Conversions Made Easy...

Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1 bananosecond

-- Unknown

3272
Conversions Made Easy...

Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram

-- Unknown

3273
Conversions Made Easy...

Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour: Knot-furlong

-- Unknown

3274
Conversions Made Easy...

365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: 1 lite year

-- Unknown

3275
Conversions Made Easy...

16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling

-- Unknown

3276
Conversions Made Easy...

Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon

-- Unknown

3277
Conversions Made Easy...

1,000,000 aches: 1 megahurtz

-- Unknown

3278
Conversions Made Easy...

Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower

-- Unknown

3279
Conversions Made Easy...

Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line (think about it for a moment)

-- Unknown

3280
Conversions Made Easy...

453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake

-- Unknown

3281
Conversions Made Easy...

1 million-million microphones: 1 megaphone

-- Unknown

3282
Conversions Made Easy...

1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles

-- Unknown

3283
Conversions Made Easy...

365.25 days: 1 unicycle

-- Unknown

3284
Conversions Made Easy...

2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds (work on it....)

-- Unknown

3285
Conversions Made Easy...

10 cards: 1 decacards

-- Unknown

3286
Conversions Made Easy...

1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton

-- Unknown

3287
Conversions Made Easy...

1000 grams of wet socks: 1 literhosen

-- Unknown

3288
Conversions Made Easy...

1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche

-- Unknown

3289
Conversions Made Easy...

1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin

-- Unknown

3290
Conversions Made Easy...

10 rations: 1 decoration

-- Unknown

3291
Conversions Made Easy...

100 rations: 1 C-ration

-- Unknown

3292
Conversions Made Easy...

2 monograms: 1 diagram

-- Unknown

3293
Conversions Made Easy...

8 nickels: 2 paradigms

-- Unknown

3294
Conversions Made Easy...

100 Senators: Not 1 decision

-- Unknown

3295
Conversions Made Easy...

University Hospital: 1 I.V. League

-- Unknown

3296
I shut my eyes in order to see.

-- Paul Gauguin

3297
All the sounds of the earth are like music.

-- Oscar Hammerstein

3298
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

-- Edwin Land

3299
Poets are born, not made.

-- Proverb

3300
There will never be another Camelot.

-- Jackie Kennedy Onassis

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3301
In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

-- James Russel Lowell

3302
Art is the difference between seeing and just identifying.

-- Jean Mary Norman

3303
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something.

-- Pablo Picasso

3304
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

-- Igor Stravinsky

3305
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

-- Henry David Thoreau

3306
Things I wish I'd known before going out into the real world...

Being miserable because of a bad or former relationship just proves that the other person was right about you.

-- Unknown

3307
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

-- Mark Twain

3308
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me. It is the parts that I do understand.

-- Unknown

3309
Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

-- General Lew Wallace

3310
When a man has a birthday he takes a day off, but when a woman has a birthday she takes a year off.

-- Anonymous

3311
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

-- Chinese proverb

3312
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred years of sorrow.

-- Chinese Proverb

3313
When the way comes to an end, then change...having changed, you pass through.

-- I. Ching

3314
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

-- Indira Gandhi

3315
All experience is an arch, to build upon.

-- Henry Brooks Adams

3316
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

-- Henry B. Adams

3317
Knowlege is power.

-- Francis Bacon

3318
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

-- Chinese Proverb

3319
Creativity is more important than knowledge.

-- Albert Einstein

3320
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.

-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

3321
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

3322
If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

-- Ruby Manikan

3323
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.

-- Alfred Mercier

3324
You're never too old to learn.

-- Proverb

3325
A little learning is a dangerous thing.

-- Proverb

3326
Success covers a multitude of blunders.

-- George Bernard Shaw

3327
Character is a victory, not a gift.

-- Unknown

3328
When all is said and done make sure you have made a difference.

-- Donna Miller

3329
The greatest weakness of all, is the fear of appearing weak.

-- Bossuet

3330
Killing time is not murder, it's suicide.

-- Unknown

3331
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

-- Alanis Morisette

3332
Alone in the darkness will cause your eyes to be more sensitive to the light.

-- Unknown

3333
Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

-- Rumi

3334
Men are like stars ... theres a million of them out there, but only one will make your dreams come true.

-- Skittles

3335
When I met you I liked you, when I liked you I kissed you, when I kissed you I loved you, when I loved you I lost you.

-- Skittles

3336
When one walks the lonely path a friend may be the only saving force of his soul.

-- Unknown

3337
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every waking minute of it.

-- Unknown

3338
In the beginning, the universe was created. This is generally regarded as a bad move..

-- Douglas Adams

3339
There are winners and losers in this world. Winners win because they try to win. Losers lose because they try to stop losing. Work it out?!.

-- Unknown

3340
Poor man wants to be rich, rich man wants to be king and the king isn't satisfied until he rules everything.

-- Unknown

3341
You can't manage creativity, all you can do is give it a place to work.

-- Unknown

3342
I plan to live forever or die trying.

-- Unknown

3343
I'd rather be right than politically correct.

-- Unknown

3344
Spelling mistakes are left in for people who need to correct others to make the life fulfilled.

-- Unknown

3345
If I'm so stupid, why aren't I rich?

-- Unknown

3346
"My middle name is Luck," said Rincewind. "Unfortunately, my first name is Bad..."!

-- Terry Pratchett, Discworld novels

3347
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful that it happens in that order.

-- Unknown

3348
Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.

-- Unknown

3349
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder....

-- Unknown

3350
Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.

-- Unknown

3351
Every morning is the dawn of a new error....

-- Unknown

3352
I can see clearly now, the brain is gone.

-- Unknown

3353
I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.

-- Unknown

3354
Mental Floss prevents Moral Decay.

-- Unknown

3355
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.

-- Unknown

3356
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

-- Unknown

3357
There cannot be a crisis today; my schedule is already full.

-- Unknown

3358
I'd explain it to you, but your brain would explode.

-- Unknown

3359
Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

-- Unknown

3360
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

-- Unknown

3361
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.

-- Unknown

3362
Don't be so open-minded your brains will fall out.

-- Unknown

3363
If at first you DO succeed, try not to look astonished!

-- Unknown

3364
Diplomacy - the art of letting someone have your way.

-- Unknown

3365
If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?

-- Unknown

3366
If things get any worse, I'll have to ask you to stop helping me.

-- Unknown

3367
If I want your opinion, I'll ask you to fill out the necessary forms.

-- Unknown

3368
Don't look back, they might be gaining on you.

-- Unknown

3369
It's not hard to meet expenses, they're everywhere.

-- Unknown

3370
Help Wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply.

-- Unknown

3371
Budget: A method for going broke methodically.

-- Unknown

3372
Car service: If it ain't broke, we'll break it.

-- Unknown

3373
Shin: A device for finding furniture in the dark.

-- Unknown

3374
Dain bramaged.

-- Unknown

3375
What has four legs and an arm? A happy pit bull.

-- Unknown

3376
Bumper stickers...

Honk If You've Never Seen An Uzi fired from a car window.

-- Unknown

3377
Bumper stickers...

If At First You Don't Succeed...Blame Someone Else And Seek Counseling.

-- Unknown

3378
Bumper stickers...

If You Can Read This, I've Lost My Trailer.

-- Unknown

3379
Bumper stickers...

Warning! Driver Only Carries $20.00 In Ammunition.

-- Unknown

3380
Bumper stickers...

How Many Roads Must A Man Travel Down Before He Admits He Is Lost?

-- Unknown

3381
Bumper stickers...

The Earth Is Full -- Go Home.

-- Unknown

3382
Bumper stickers...

I Have The Body Of A God ... Buddha.

-- Unknown

3383
Bumper stickers...

This Would Be Really Funny If It Weren't Happening To Me.

-- Unknown

3384
Bumper stickers...

So Many Pedestrians -- So Little Time.

-- Unknown

3385
Bumper stickers...

Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult.

-- Unknown

3386
Bumper stickers...

If Walking Is So Good For You, Then Why Does My Mailman Look Like Jabba The Hut?

-- Unknown

3387
Bumper stickers...

Body By Nautilus; Brain By Mattel.

-- Unknown

3388
Bumper stickers...

Cat: The Other White Meat.

-- Unknown

3389
Bumper stickers...

You're Just Jealous Because The Voices Are Talking To Me.

-- Unknown

3390
Bumper stickers...

The Face Is Familiar But I Can't Quite Remember My Name.

-- Unknown

3391
Bumper stickers...

I Do Whatever My Rice Krispies Tell Me To.

-- Unknown

3392
Bumper stickers...

It's Been Lovely But I Have To Scream Now.

-- Unknown

3393
Bumper stickers...

I Haven't Lost My Mind, It's Backed Up On Disk Somewhere.

-- Unknown

3394
Bumper stickers...

Boldly Going Nowhere.

-- Unknown

3395
Bumper stickers...

Money Isn't Everything, But It Sure Keeps The Kids In Touch.

-- Unknown

3396
Bumper stickers...

If You Can Read This, Please Flip Me Back Over (seen upside down, on a Jeep).

-- Unknown

3397
One liners and comebacks...

Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.

-- Unknown

3398
One liners and comebacks...

I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.

-- Unknown

3399
One liners and comebacks...

I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don't care.

-- Unknown

3400
One liners and comebacks...

What am I? Flypaper for freaks!?

-- Unknown

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3401
Rules of Golf...

1. If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.

-- Unknown

3402
Rules of Golf...

2. The game of golf is 90% mental and 10% mental.

-- Unknown

3403
Rules of Golf...

3. Since bad shots come in groups of three, a fourth bad shot is actually the beginning of the next group of three.

-- Unknown

3404
Rules of Golf...

4. When you look up, causing an awful shot, you will always look down again at exactly the moment when you ought to start watching the ball if you ever want to see it again.

-- Unknown

3405
Rules of Golf...

5. Any change works for a maximum of three holes - - or at a minimum of not at all.

-- Unknown

3406
Rules of Golf...

6. No matter how bad you are playing, it is always possible to play worse.

-- Unknown

3407
Rules of Golf...

7. Never try to keep more than 300 separate thoughts in your mind during your swing.

-- Unknown

3408
Rules of Golf...

8. When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.

-- Unknown

3409
Rules of Golf...

9. If you're afraid a full shot might reach the green while the foursome ahead of you is still putting out, you have two options: you can immediately shank a lay-up, or you can wait until the green is clear and top a ball halfway there.

-- Unknown

3410
Rules of Golf...

10. The less skilled the player, the more likely he is to share his ideas about the golf swing.

-- Unknown

3411
Rules of Golf...

11. The inevitable result of any golf lesson is the instant elimination of the one critical unconscious motion that allowed you to compensate for all of your many other errors.

-- Unknown

3412
Rules of Golf...

12. If it ain't broke, try changing your grip.

-- Unknown

3413
Rules of Golf...

13. Golfers who claim they don't cheat, also lie.

-- Unknown

3414
Rules of Golf...

14. Everyone replaces his divot after a perfect approach shot.

-- Unknown

3415
Rules of Golf...

15. A golf match is a test of your skill against your opponent's luck.

-- Unknown

3416
Rules of Golf...

16. It's surprisingly easy to hole a 50-foot putt when you lie 8.

-- Unknown

3417
Rules of Golf...

17. Counting on your opponent to inform you when he breaks a rule is like expecting him to make fun of his own haircut.

-- Unknown

3418
Rules of Golf...

18. Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.

-- Unknown

3419
Rules of Golf...

19. It's not a gimme if you're still away.

-- Unknown

3420
Rules of Golf...

20. The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

-- Unknown

3421
Rules of Golf...

21. There are two kinds of bounces: unfair bounces, and bounces just the way you meant to play it.

-- Unknown

3422
Rules of Golf...

22. You can hit a 2-acre fairway 10% of the time, and a 2-inch branch 90% of the time.

-- Unknown

3423
Rules of Golf...

23. Every time a golfer makes a birdie, he must subsequently make two triple bogeys to restore the fundamental equilibrium of the universe.

-- Unknown

3424
Rules of Golf...

24. If you want to hit a 7-iron as far as Tiger Woods does, simply try to lay up just short of a water hazard.

-- Unknown

3425
Rules of Golf...

25. To calculate the speed of a player's downswing, multiply the speed of his backswing by his handicap. Example: backswing 20 mph, handicap 15, downswing 600mph.

-- Unknown

3426
Rules of Golf...

26. There are two things you can learn by stopping your backswing at the top and checking the position of your hands: how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove.

-- Unknown

3427
Rules of Golf...

27. Hazards attract; fairways repel.

-- Unknown

3428
Rules of Golf...

28. You can put "draw" on the ball, you can put "fade" on the ball, but no golfer can put "straight" on the ball.

-- Unknown

3429
Rules of Golf...

29. A ball you can see in the rough from 50 yards away is not yours.

-- Unknown

3430
Rules of Golf...

30. If there is a ball in the fringe and a ball in the bunker, your ball is in the bunker.

-- Unknown

3431
Rules of Golf...

31. If both balls are in the bunker, yours is in the footprint.

-- Unknown

3432
Rules of Golf...

32. Don't buy a putter until you've had a chance to throw it.

-- Unknown

3433
If you're not a Liberal at age 20, you have no heart -- and if you're not a conservative at age 40, you have no head

-- Unknown

3434
"Twenty-three is the best age (to marry) because you know the person FOREVER by then."

-- Camille, age 10

3435
"No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married."

-- Freddie, age 6

3436
Headlines...

Include Your Children When Baking Cookies

-- Unknown

3437
Headlines...

Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Experts Say

-- Unknown

3438
Headlines...

Drunks Get Nine Months in Violin Case

-- Unknown

3439
Headlines...

Iraqi Head Seeks Arms

-- Unknown

3440
Headlines...

Miners Refuse to Work After Death

-- Unknown

3441
Headlines...

Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge

-- Unknown

3442
Headlines...

Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Space

-- Unknown

3443
One liners and comebacks...

I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.

-- Unknown

3444
One liners and comebacks...

It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma to burn off.

-- Unknown

3445
One liners and comebacks...

How about never? Is never good for you?

-- Unknown

3446
One liners and comebacks...

You sound reasonable.... Time to up my medication.

-- Unknown

3447
One liners and comebacks...

I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message.

-- Unknown

3448
One liners and comebacks...

Who me? I just wander from room to room.

-- Unknown

3449
One liners and comebacks...

It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy.

-- Unknown

3450
One liners and comebacks...

You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.

-- Unknown

3451
One liners and comebacks...

Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.

-- Unknown

3452
One liners and comebacks...

The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist, or, "a genius".

-- Unknown

3453
One liners and comebacks...

Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.

-- Unknown

3454
One liners and comebacks...

I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.

-- Unknown

3455
One liners and comebacks...

I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant.

-- Unknown

3456
One liners and comebacks...

I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.

-- Unknown

3457
One liners and comebacks...

Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.

-- Unknown

3458
One liners and comebacks...

No, my powers can only be used for good.

-- Unknown

3459
One liners and comebacks...

I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me.

-- Unknown

3460
One liners and comebacks...

I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.

-- Unknown

3461
One liners and comebacks...

I don't work here. I'm a consultant.

-- Unknown

3462
One liners and comebacks...

My toys! My toys! I can't do this job without my toys!

-- Unknown

3463
One liners and comebacks...

At least I have a positive attitude about my destructive habits.

-- Unknown

3464
One liners and comebacks...

I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.

-- Unknown

3465
Blaming others can become a satisfying way of life.

-- Unknown

3466
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried.

-- Unknown

3467
Brain damage? No thanks, I already have some.

-- Unknown

3468
Few people blame themselves until they have exhausted all other possibilities.

-- Unknown

3469
I bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again.

-- Unknown

3470
Reality and life are not the same.

-- PM Dawn

3471
Some days are made for rain.

-- Aaron Neville

3472
Life's a journey not a destination.

-- Aerosmith

3473
But tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun.

-- The Beatles

3474
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

-- Oscar Wilde

3475
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

-- Mark Twain

3476
It all begins where it ends.

-- Roxette

3477
I would rather have 15 minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.

-- Steel Magnolias

3478
Everything should be as simple as possible -- but not simpler.

-- Albert Einstein

3479
Life is too important to be taken seriously.

-- Oscar Wilde

3480
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper... the more it is spent, the more it remains.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

3481
A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men!

-- Willy Wonka

3482
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

-- Arab Proverb

3483
A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.

-- English Proverb

3484
A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.

-- Persian Proverb

3485
A cat has nine lives.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3486
A closed mouth catches no flies.

-- Italian Proverb

3487
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

-- German Proverb

3488
A courtyard common to all will be swept by none.

-- Chinese Proverb

3489
A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master.

-- Russian Proverb

3490
A drink precedes a story.

-- Irish Proverb

3491
A drowning man is not troubled by rain.

-- Persian Proverb

3492
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

-- William Blake "Proverbs of Hell" (1790)

3493
A forest is in an acorn.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3494
A friend in need is a friend indeed

-- English Proverb

3495
A good denial, the best point in law.

-- Irish Proverb

3496
A good husband is healthy and absent.

-- Japanese Proverb

3497
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3498
A healthy man is a successful man.

-- French Proverb

3499
A hedge between keeps friendship green.

-- French Proverb

3500
A friend's eye is a good mirror.

-- Irish Proverb

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3501
A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man.

-- Turkish Proverb

3502
A lock is better than suspicion.

-- Irish Proverb

3503
A loan though old is not gift.

-- Hungarian Proverb

3504
A little too late, is much too late.

-- German Proverb

3505
A monkey never thinks her baby's ugly.

-- Haitian Proverb

3506
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.

-- Yiddish Proverb

3507
A man may well bring a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3508
A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.

-- Yiddish Proverb

3509
Voodoo acupuncture: You don't have to go.

-- Unknown

3510
A hen is heavy when carried far.

-- Irish Proverb

3511
A hound's food is in its legs.

-- Irish Proverb

3512
A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel.

-- Portuguese Proverb

3513
A hungry man is an angry man.

-- English Proverb

3514
A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

-- French Proverb

3515
A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners.

-- Irish Proverb

3516
A penny for your thoughts.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3517
A penny saved is a penny gained.

-- Scottish Proverb

3518
A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

-- English Proverb

3519
A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.

-- Hungarian Proverb

3520
A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

-- Chinese proverb

3521
A silent mouth is melodious.

-- Irish Proverb

3522
A single Russian hair outweighs half a Pole.

-- Traditional Russian Saying

3523
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

-- Greek Proverb

3524
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

-- Bible - Proverbs 15:1.

3525
A son is a son till he gets him a wife,
But a daughter's a daughter the rest of your life.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3526
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

-- Welsh Proverb

3527
A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.

-- Yiddish Proverb

3528
A teacher is better than two books.

-- German Proverb

3529
A thief believes everybody steals.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3530
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.

-- Chinese proverb

3531
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

-- French Proverb

3532
A trade not properly learned is an enemy.

-- Irish Proverb

3533
A tree falls the way it leans.

-- Bulgarian Proverb

3534
A white Christmas fills the churchyard.

-- French Proverb

3535
A wise man hears one word and understands two.

-- Yiddish Proverb

3536
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

-- Chinese Proverb

3537
A worthy woman is far more precious than jewels, strength and dignity are her clothing.

-- Bible - Proverbs 31

3538
Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.

-- Danish Proverb

3539
Advice should be viewed from behind.

-- Swedish Proverb

3540
Advice when most needed is least heeded.

-- English Proverb

3541
After shaking hands with a Greek, count your fingers.

-- Albanian Saying

3542
Age is honorable and youth is noble.

-- Irish Proverb

3543
All is well that ends well.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3544
All things grow with time, except grief.

-- Yiddish Proverb

3545
An angry man is not fit to pray.

-- Yiddish Proverb

3546
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3547
An ass in Germany is a professor in Rome.

-- Traditional German Saying

3548
An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.

-- Russian Proverb

3549
An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea.

-- Turkish Proverb

3550
An ox remains an ox, even if driven to Vienna.

-- Hungarian Proverb

3551
And old rat is a brave rat.

-- French Proverb

3552
Anger can be an expensive luxury.

-- Italian Proverb

3553
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

-- Malabar Proverb

3554
Anger without power is folly.

-- German Proverb

3555
Appetite comes with eating.

-- French Proverb

3556
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

-- Bible - Proverbs 26:11

3557
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

-- Bible - Proverbs 23:7

3558
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

-- Bible - Proverbs 25:25.

3559
As mad as a March hare.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3560
As proud as a peacock.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3561
As sluttish and slatternly as an Irishwoman bred in France.

-- Traditional Irish Saying

3562
As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, the truest lover may turn into the worst enemy.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3563
As the big hound is, so will the pup be.

-- Irish Proverb

3564
As we live, so we learn.

-- Yiddish Proverb

3565
Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

-- Irish Proverb

3566
Better late than never.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3567
Beggars shouldn't be choosers.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3568
Better give a penny then lend twenty.

-- Italian Proverb

3569
Better no doctor at all than three.

-- Polish Proverb

3570
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.

-- English Proverb

3571
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

-- Chinese Proverb

3572
Better wear out shoes than sheets.

-- Scottish Proverb

3573
Between the devil and the deep blue sea.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3574
Beware of a silent dog and still water.

-- German Proverb

3575
Black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. (About coffee.)

-- Turkish proverb

3576
Blood is thicker than water.

-- English Proverb (17th Century)

3577
Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die.

-- Irish Proverb

3578
Butter would not melt in her mouth.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3579
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

-- Indian Proverb

3580
Children are poor men's riches.

-- English Proverb

3581
Children should be seen and not heard.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3582
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

-- English Proverb.

3583
Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight.

-- Italian Proverb

3584
Climb mountains to see lowlands.

-- Chinese Proverb

3585
Clogs to clogs in three generations.

-- English Proverb

3586
Clouds gather before a storm.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3587
Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.

-- Jewish Saying

3588
Curiosity killed the cat.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3589
Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.

-- Japanese Proverb

3590
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.

-- Chinese Proverb

3591
Death always comes too early or too late.

-- English Proverb

3592
Death closes all doors.

-- English Proverb

3593
Death pays all debts.

-- English Proverb

3594
Did hogs feed here or did Lithuanians have a feast here?

-- Traditional Polish Saying

3595
Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky.

-- Russian Proverb

3596
Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings.

-- Indian Proverb

3597
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

-- African proverb

3598
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new.

-- Spanish Proverb

3599
Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills.

-- Hebrew Proverb

3600
Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor.

-- Oriental Proverb

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3601
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more... it can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home..."

-- Melody Beattie

3602
FLORIDA:

If you think we can't vote, wait 'till you see us drive.

-- Unknown

3603
FLORIDA:

Home of electile dysfunction.

-- Unknown

3604
FLORIDA:

We count more than you do.

-- Unknown

3605
FLORIDA:

If you don't like the way we count, then take I-95 and visit one of the other 56 states.

-- Unknown

3606
FLORIDA:

We've been Gored by the bull of politics and we're Bushed.

-- Unknown

3607
FLORIDA:

Relax, Retire, ReVote.

-- Unknown

3608
FLORIDA:

Viagra voters do it again and again!

-- Unknown

3609
FLORIDA:

Where your vote counts and counts and counts.

-- Unknown

610
FLORIDA:

This is what you get for taking Elian away from us.

-- Unknown

3611
FLORIDA:

We're number one! Wait! Recount!

-- Unknown

3612
Palm Beach County:

So nice, we let you vote twice.

-- Unknown

3613
Palm Beach County:

We put the "duh" in Florida.

-- Unknown

3614
Sign on I-95:

Florida this way, no that way, 5 miles, wait 10 miles.

-- Unknown

3615
Thought for today...

What do batteries run on?

-- Unknown

3616
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

-- Chinese Proverb

3617
Don't imitate the fly before you have wings.

-- French Proverb

3618
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3619
Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound.

-- Latin Proverb

3620
Epigrams succeed where epics fail.

-- Persian Proverb

3621
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

-- Bible - Proverbs 17:28

3622
Even a small thorn causes festering.

-- Irish Proverb

3623
Every ass loves to hear himself bray.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3624
Every cloud has a silver lining.

-- English Proverb

3625
Every dog hath its day.

-- English Proverb

3626
Every garden may have some weeds.

-- English Proverb

3627
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

-- UYiddish proverb

3628
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

-- Italian Proverb

3629
Everyone pushes a falling fence.

-- Chinese Proverb

3630
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

-- Ethiopian Proverb

3631
Evil is sooner believed than good.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3632
Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

-- Eastern Proverb

3633
Fame is a magnifying glass.

-- English Proverb

3634
Fine feathers make fine birds.

-- English Proverb

3635
Feather by feather the goose can be plucked.

-- French Proverb

3636
Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow.

-- French Proverb

3637
Fortune is blind, but not invisible.

-- French Proverb

3638
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

-- Spanish Proverb

3639
Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

-- English Proverb

3640
Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.

-- French Proverb

3641
Friendship is a furrow in the sand.

-- Tongan Proverb

3642
Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.

-- Italian Proverb

3643
Give the devil his due.

-- English Proverb

3644
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.

-- French Proverb

3645
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

-- Jewish Proverb

3646
God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them.

-- German proverb

3647
God heals, and the physician takes the fee.

-- French Proverb

3648
God help the rich man, let the poor man beg!

-- Old English Proverb

3649
God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves.

-- Old English Proverb

3650
Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

-- Chinese Proverb

3651
Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

-- French Proverb

3652
Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.

-- Irish Proverb

3653
Good luck beats early rising.

-- Irish Proverb

3654
Half a loaf is better than none.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3655
Haste makes waste.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3656
Have a horse of your own and then you may borrow another's.

-- Welsh Proverb

3657
He is not wise that is not wise for himself.

-- English Proverb

3658
He lied like an eyewitness.

-- Russian Insult

3659
He makes his home where the living is best.

-- Latin Proverb

3660
He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

-- Jewish Proverb

3661
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.

-- French Proverb (14th century)

3662
He that is rich will not be called a fool.

-- Spanish Proverb

3663
He that lives on hope will die fasting.

-- North American Proverb

3664
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

-- Bible - Proverbs 28:20.

3665
He that marries for money will earn it.

-- American Proverb

3666
He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.

-- English Proverb

3667
He that seeks trouble never misses.

-- English Proverb (17th century)

3668
He that spareth his rod hateth his son.

-- Bible - Proverbs 24

3669
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

-- Chinese proverb

3670
He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you.

-- Irish Proverb

3671
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

-- Chinese Proverb

3672
He who does not know one thing knows another.

-- Kenyan Proverb

3673
He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.

-- Irish Proverb

3674
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

-- Arabian Proverb

3675
He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup.

-- German Proverb

3676
He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief.

-- German Proverb

3677
He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.

-- Spanish Proverb

3678
He who leaps high must take a long run.

-- Danish Proverb

3679
He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.

-- Chinese Proverb

3680
He who serves two masters has to lie to one.

-- Portuguese Proverb

3681
He who sups with the devil has need of a long spoon.

-- English Proverb

3682
He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.

-- English Proverb

3683
He who would eat in Spain must bring his kitchen along.

-- Traditional German Saying

3684
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

-- William Blake "Proverbs of Hell" (1790)

3685
Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.

-- Chinese Proverb

3686
Honesty is the best policy.

-- English Proverb

3687
How many will listen to the truth when you tell them?

-- Yiddish Proverb

3688
Hygiene is two thirds of health.

-- Lebanese Proverb

3689
If a man be great, even his dog will wear a proud look.

-- Japanese Proverb

3690
If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

-- Italian Proverb

3691
If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.

-- Yiddish Proverb

3692
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

-- Jewish Proverb

3693
If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

-- Yiddish Proverb

3694
If the patient dies, the doctor has killed him, but if he gets well, the saints have saved him.

-- Italian Proverb

3695
If two men ride a horse, one must ride behind.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3696
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

-- Chinese Proverb

3697
If you believe everything you read, better not read.

-- Japanese proverb

3698
If you bow at all bow low.

-- Chinese Proverb

3699
If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.

-- Irish Proverb

3700
If you love him, don't lend him.

-- Polish Proverb

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3701
Thought for Today:

I'm NOT weird, I'm morally disabled.

-- Unknown

3702
Thought for Today:

Jewish dilemma - Free ham.

-- Unknown

3703
If you take big paces you leave big spaces.

-- Burmese Proverb

3704
If you want to be criticized, marry.

-- Irish Proverb

3705
If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir.

-- Romanian Proverb

3706
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

-- Chinese Proverb

3707
In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

-- Spanish Proverb

3708
In America half an hour is forty minutes.

-- German Proverb

3709
In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

-- Greek Proverb

3710
In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

-- French Proverb

3711
Instinct is stronger than upbringing.

-- Irish Proverb

3712
It is a bad hen that does not scratch herself.

-- Irish Proverb

3713
It is a bold mouse that nestles in the cat's ear.

-- English Proverb

3714
It is a long road that has no turning.

-- Irish Proverb

3715
It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.

-- English Proverb (18th century)

3716
It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3717
It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten.

-- Kurdish Proverb

3718
It is better to be born a beggar than a fool.

-- Spanish Proverb

3719
It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance.

-- Spanish Proverb

3720
It is better to exist unknown to the law.

-- Irish Proverb

3721
It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. (About laziness)

-- Indian Proverb

3722
It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten.

-- Danish Proverb

3723
It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

-- Irish Proverb

3724
It is not enough to run, one must start in time.

-- French Proverb

3725
It is not fish until it is on the bank.

-- Irish Proverb

3726
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.

-- Russian proverb

3727
It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for.

-- Irish Proverb

3728
It is the good horse that draws its own cart.

-- Irish Proverb

3729
It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal.

-- Irish Proverb

3730
It takes time to build castles. Rome wan not built in a day.

-- Irish Proverb

3731
It's an ill wind that blows no good.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3732
It's not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while.

-- Irish Proverb

3733
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

-- Chinese Proverb

3734
Keep a thing for seven years and you'll find a use for it.

-- Irish Proverb

3735
Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs.

-- English Proverb

3736
Lack of resource has hanged many a person.

-- Irish Proverb

3737
Last ship, best ship.

-- English Proverb

3738
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

-- Chinese Proverb

3739
Lend your money and lose your friend.

-- English Proverb

3740
Let sleeping dogs lie.

-- English Proverb

3741
Let your heart guide your head in evil matters.

-- Spanish Proverb

3742
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

-- Indian Proverb

3743
Life without a friend is death without a witness.

-- Spanish Proverb

3744
Like a fish out of water.

-- Latin Saying

3745
Like a lame man's legs that hang limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.

-- Bible - Proverbs 26:7

3746
Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout.

-- Irish Proverb

3747
Little pitchers have big ears.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3748
Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.

-- Spanish Proverb

3749
Look before you leap.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3750
Look down if you would know how high you stand.

-- Yiddish Proverb

3751
Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears.

-- Polish Proverb

3752
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

-- French Proverb

3753
Love me, love my dog.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3754
Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence.

-- Chinese proverb

3755
Love, pain, and money cannot be kept secret; they soon betray themselves.

-- Spanish Proverb

3756
Luck has a slender anchorage.

-- English Proverb

3757
Mad as a march hare.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3758
Many hands make light work.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3759
Make hay while the sun shines.

-- English Proverb

3760
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

-- Chinese Proverb

3761
Many a friend was lost through a joke, but none was ever gained so.

-- Czech Proverb

3762
May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

-- English Proverb

3763
May the curse of Mary Malone and her nine blind illegitimate children chase you so far over the hills of Damnation that the Lord himself can't find you with a telescope.

-- Traditional Irish Curse

3764
May the grass grow at your door and the fox build his nest on your hearthstone.

-- Traditional Irish Curse

3765
May the light fade from your eyes, so you never see what you love.

-- Traditional Irish Curse

3766
May your own blood rise against you, and the sweetest drink you take be the bitterest cup of sorrow.

-- Traditional Irish Curse

3767
May you die without benefit of clergy.

-- Traditional Irish Curse

3768
May there be none to shed a tear at your grave, and may the hearthstone of hell be your best bed forever.

-- Traditional Wexford Curse

3769
May you have a bright future - as the chimney sweep said to his son.

-- Irish Proverb

3770
May you wander over the face of the earth forever, never sleep twice in the same bed, never drink water twice from the same well, and never cross the same river twice in a year.

-- Traditional Gypsy Curse

3771
May your every wish be granted.

-- Ancient Chinese Curse

3772
May your left ear wither and fall into your right pocket.

-- Traditional Arab Curse

3773
Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.

-- French Proverb

3774
Mere words do not feed the friars.

-- Irish Proverb

3775
More grows in the garden than the gardener knows he has sown.

-- Spanish Proverb

3776
More things belong to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3777
Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

-- Irish Proverb

3778
Necessity is the mother of invention.

-- Irish Proverb

3779
Necessity knows no law.

-- Irish Proverb

3780
Necessity never made a good bargain.

-- North American Proverb

3781
Need teaches a plan.

-- Irish Proverb

3782
Never cut what can be untied.

-- Portuguese Proverb

3783
Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking.

-- English Proverb

3784
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

-- Scottish Proverb

3785
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today.

-- English Proverb

3786
Night is the mother of council.

-- Latin Proverb

3787
No man limps because another is hurt.

-- Danish Proverb

3788
No man ought to look a given horse in the mouth.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3789
No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival.

-- Turkish Proverb

3790
No time like the present.

-- English Proverb

3791
Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.

-- Chinese Proverb

3792
Not wine...men intoxicate themselves; Not vice...men entice themselves

-- Chinese Proverb

3793
Nothing dries sooner than tears.

-- Latin Proverb

3794
Nothing is as burdensome as a secret.

-- French Proverb

3795
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3796
One beggar at the door is enough.

-- French Proverb

3797
One cannot shoe a running horse.

-- Dutch Proverb

3798
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

-- English Proverb (17th century)

3799
One flower will not make a garland.

-- French Proverb

3800
One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.

-- Chinese Proverb

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3801
Thought For Today:

LUNACY...my Best personality trait!

-- Unknown

3802
The tongue like a sharp knife...Kills without drawing blood.

-- Chinese Proverb

3803
One good turn deserves another.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3804
One swallow maketh not a summer.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3805
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

-- Chinese Proverb

3806
One of these days is none of these days.

-- English Proverb

3807
One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.

-- Swedish Proverb

3808
One woman never praises another.

-- Estonian Proverb

3809
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.

-- English Proverb

3810
Out of the frying pan into the fire.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3811
Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.

-- French Proverb

3812
Patience is poultice for all wounds.

-- Irish Proverb

3813
Patience is the best medicine.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3814
People live in each other's shelter.

-- Irish Proverb

3815
Pigs might fly, but they are most unlikely birds.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3816
Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.

-- Russian proverb

3817
Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.

-- English Proverb

3818
Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.

-- Korean Proverb

3819
Practice makes perfect.

-- English Proverb

3820
Praise the young and they will blossom.

-- Irish Proverb

3821
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

-- Bible - Proverbs 16:18

3822
Procrastination is the thief of time.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3823
Public before private and country before family.

-- Chinese Proverb

3824
Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat.

-- Irish Proverb

3825
Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.

-- Irish Proverb

3826
Rags to riches to rags.

-- Lancastrian Proverb

3827
Rain beats a leopard's skin, but it does not wash off the spots.

-- Ashanti Proverb

3828
Rats desert a sinking ship.

-- French Proverb

3829
Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.

-- French Proverb

3830
Roasted pigeons will not fly into one's mouth.

-- Dutch Proverb

3831
Rome was not built in a day.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3832
Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

-- English Proverb

3833
Seek counsel of him who makes you weep, and not of him who makes you laugh.

-- Arabic Proverb

3834
Set a beggar on horseback, and he 'll out ride the Devil.

-- German Proverb

3835
Set a thief to catch a thief.

-- English Proverb

3836
Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.

-- English Proverb

3837
Silence was never written down.

-- Italian Proverb

3838
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

-- Spanish Proverb

3839
Sit a beggar at your table and he will soon put his feet on it.

-- Russian Proverb

3840
Small children give you headache; big children heartache.

-- Russian Proverb

3841
Some people are masters of money, and some its slaves.

-- Russian Proverb

3842
Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great wings across the sky.

-- Ojibway Saying

3843
Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.

-- English Proverb

3844
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

-- English Proverb (17th century)

3845
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

-- Slovenian Proverb

3846
Stars are not seen by sunshine.

-- Spanish Proverb

3847
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

-- Bible - Proverbs 9:17

3848
Sweet is the wine but sour is the payment.

-- Irish Proverb

3849
Take heed of enemies reconciled, and of meat twice boiled.

-- English Proverb.

3850
Take thy thoughts to bed with thee, for the morning is wiser than the evening.

-- Russian Proverb

3851
Talk of the devil and he is sure to appear.

-- English Proverb

3852
Tell me who you live with and I will tell you who you are.

-- Spanish Proverb

3853
Tell the truth and shame the devil.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3854
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

-- Chinese Proverb

3855
The best advice is found on the pillow.

-- Danish Proverb

3856
The best thing about a man is his dog.

-- French Proverb

3857
The big thieves hang the little ones.

-- Czech proverb

3858
The church is near but the road is icy; the bar is far away but I'll walk carefully.

-- Russian proverb

3859
The comforter's head never aches.

-- Italian Proverb

3860
The darkest hour is that before the dawn.

-- English Proverb

3861
The day will come when the cow will have use for her tail.

-- Irish Proverb

3862
The devil looks after his own.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3863
The devil seduced Eve in Italian. Eve mislead Adam in Bohemian. The Lord scolded them both in German. Then the angel drove them from paradise in Hungarian.

-- Traditional Polish Saying

3864
The fat is in the fire.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3865
The green new broom sweepeth clean.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3866
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

-- Chinese Proverb

3867
The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.

-- Yiddish Proverb

3868
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3869
The great thieves lead away the little thieves.

-- French Proverb

3870
The hole is more honorable than the patch.

-- Irish Proverb

3871
The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

-- William Blake "Proverbs of Hell" (1790)

3872
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.

-- Yiddish Proverb

3873
The jay bird don't rob his own nest.

-- West Indies Proverb

3874
The light heart lives long.

-- Irish Proverb

3875
The man who does not love a horse cannot love a woman.

-- Spanish Proverb

3876
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

-- Chinese Proverb

3877
The man with the boots does not mind where he places his foot.

-- Irish Proverb

3878
The mills of God grind slowly but they grind finely.

-- Irish Proverb

3879
The moon is made of a green cheese.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3880
The more the merrier.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3881
The morning is wiser than the evening.

-- Russian Proverb

3882
The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.

-- Japanese Proverb

3883
The night rinses what the day has soaped.

-- Swiss Proverb

3884
The only good thing that comes from the east is the sun.

-- Traditional Portuguese Saying

3885
The palest ink is better than the best memory.

-- Chinese proverb

3886
The pine stays green in winter...Wisdom in hardship.

-- Chinese proverb

3887
The raggy colt often made a powerful horse.

-- Irish Proverb

3888
The reverse side also has a reverse side.

-- Japanese proverb

3889
The right man comes at the right time.

-- Italian Proverb

3890
The road to a friend's house is never long.

-- Danish proverb

3891
The Russian knows the way, yet he asks for directions.

-- Traditional German Saying

3892
The sea has an enormous thirst and an insatiable appetite.

-- French Proverb

3893
The silent dog is the first to bite.

-- German Proverb

3894
The smallest thing outlives the human being.

-- Irish Proverb

3895
The Spaniard is a bad servant but a worse master.

-- Traditional English Saying

3896
The sun will set without thy assistance.

-- Hebrew Proverb

3897
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

-- French Proverb

3898
The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.

-- Russian proverb

3899
The tide tarrieth for no man.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3900
The tongue is more to be feared than the sword.

-- Japanese Proverb

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3901
In my day...

...we couldn't afford shoes, so we went barefoot. In winter, we had to wrap our feet with barbed wire for traction.

-- The Washington Post

3902
In my day...

...we didn't have rocks. We had to go down to the creek and wash our clothes by beating them with our heads.

-- The Washington Post

3903
In my day...

...we didn't have fancy health-food restaurants. Every day we ate lots of easily recognizable animal parts, along with potatoes.

-- The Washington Post

3904
In my day...

...we didn't have hand-held calculators. We had to do addition on our fingers. To subtract, we had to have some fingers amputated.

-- The Washington Post

3905
In my day...

...we didn't have water. We had to smash together our own hydrogen and oxygen atoms.

-- The Washington Post

3906
In my day...

...'60 Minutes' wasn't just a bunch of gray-haired, liberal 80-year-old guys. It was a bunch of gray-haired, liberal 60-year-old guys.

-- The Washington Post

3907
In my day...

...we didn't have virtual reality. If a one-eyed razorback barbarian warrior was chasing you with an ax, you just had to hope you could outrun him.

-- The Washington Post

3908
In my day...

...they hadn't invented electricity. We had to watch television by candlelight.

-- The Washington Post

3909
In my day...

...we didn't have Strom Thurmond. Oh, wait. Yes we did.

-- The Washington Post

3910
The truth is not always what we want to hear.

-- Yiddish Proverb

3911
The turtle lays thousands of eggs without anyone knowing, but when the hen lays an egg, the whole country is informed.

-- Malay Proverb

3912
The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches.

-- Irish Proverb

3913
The well fed does not understand the lean.

-- Irish Proverb

3914
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

-- Arabian Proverb

3915
The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher.

-- Chinese Proverb

3916
The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet.

-- Persian Proverb

3917
The wolf loses his teeth, but not his inclinations.

-- Spanish Proverb

3918
The work praises the man.

-- Irish Proverb

3919
The world is a rose: smell it and pass it on to your friends.

-- Persian Proverb

3920
The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey.

-- Irish Proverb

3921
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.

-- Chinese Proverb

3922
There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

-- French Proverb

3923
There are only two types of Chinese -- those who give bribes and those who take them.

-- Russian Proverb

3924
There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.

-- French Proverb.

3925
There is but one good mother-in-law and she is dead.

-- English Proverb

3926
There is honor even among thieves.

-- English Proverb

3927
There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave.

-- Irish Proverb

3928
There is no fireside like your own fireside.

-- Irish Proverb

3929
There is no luck except where there is discipline.

-- Irish Proverb

3930
There is no need like the lack of a friend.

-- Irish Proverb

3931
There is no strength without unity.

-- Irish Proverb

3932
There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel.

-- Russian Proverb

3933
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

-- Greek Proverb

3934
They who love most are least valued.

-- English Proverb

3935
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

-- William Blake "Proverbs of Hell" (1790)

3936
Think with the wise but walk with the vulgar.

-- German Proverb

3937
Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.

-- Irish Proverb

3938
Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground.

-- Malay Proverb

3939
Three diseases without shame: Love, itch and thirst.

-- Irish Proverb

3940
Time is a great story teller.

-- Irish Proverb

3941
Three Spaniards, four opinions.

-- Spanish Proverb

3942
Time trieth truth.

-- English Proverb

3943
To be rich is not everything, but it certainly helps.

-- Yiddish Proverb

3944
To deny all, is to confess all.

-- Spanish Proverb

3945
To leave is to die a little.

-- French Proverb

3946
To lend is to buy a quarrel.

-- Indian Proverb

3947
To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.

-- English Proverb (18th century)

3948
To teach is to learn.

-- Japanese Proverb

3949
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.

-- Latin Proverb

3950
To whom you tell your secrets, to him you resign your liberty.

-- Spanish Proverb

3951
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

-- Spanish Proverb

3952
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

-- North American Saying

3953
Tomorrow is a new day.

-- English Proverb

3954
Tomorrow never comes.

-- Proverb of Unknown Origin

3955
Trouble rides a fast horse.

-- Italian Proverb

3956
True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

-- Hindustani Proverb

3957
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.

-- Old Muslim Proverb

3958
Truth and oil always come to the surface.

-- Spanish Proverb

3959
Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments.

-- German Proverb

3960
Truth is the safest lie.

-- Jewish Proverb

3961
Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.

-- Bible - Proverbs 12:19

3962
Truth will be out.

-- Latin Proverb

3963
Two heads are better than one.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3964
Two shorten the road.

-- Irish Proverb

3965
Two thirds of the work is the semblance.

-- Irish Proverb

3966
Unless you enter the tiger's den you cannot take the cubs.

-- Japanese Proverb

3967
Visit your aunt, but not every day of the year.

-- Spanish Proverb

3968
Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said to the young crab.

-- Irish Proverb

3969
Want a thing long enough and you don't.

-- Chinese Proverb

3970
War is death's feast.

-- George Herbert "Outlandish Proverbs"

3971
Water for oxen, wine for kings.

-- Spanish Proverb

3972
We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.

-- Scottish Proverb

3973
Went in one ear and out the other.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3974
What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.

-- Spanish Proverb

3975
What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.

-- Swedish proverb

3976
What one knows it is sometimes useful to forget.

-- Latin Proverb

3977
What you cannot avoid, welcome.

-- Chinese Proverb

3978
When a father helps a son, both smile; but when a son must help his father, both cry.

-- Jewish Proverb

3979
When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.

-- Irish Proverb

3980
When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.

-- Irish Proverb

3981
When fortune knocks upon the door open it widely.

-- Spanish Proverb

3982
When ill luck falls asleep, let none wake her.

-- Italian Proverb

3983
When its time has arrived, the prey becomes the hunter.

-- Persian Proverb

3984
When one dog barks another will join it.

-- Latin Proverb

3985
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.

-- Ethiopian proverb

3986
When the apple is ripe it will fall.

-- Irish Proverb

3987
When the drop (drink) is inside, the sense is outside.

-- Irish Proverb

3988
When the iron is hot, strike.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3989
When the liquor was gone the fun was gone.

-- Irish Proverb

3990
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.

-- Nigerian Proverb

3991
When the sun shineth, make hay.

-- John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

3992
When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.

-- English Proverb

3993
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

-- African Proverb

3994
When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.

-- Chinese Proverb

3995
When we sing everybody hears us, when we sigh nobody hears us.

-- Russian Proverb

3996
When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone.

-- Russian Proverb

3997
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

-- Indian proverb

3998
When your enemy falls, don't rejoice -- but don't pick him up either.

-- Yiddish Proverb

3999
Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

-- Bible - Proverbs 11:14.

4000
Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

-- Irish Proverb

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