quotes and sayings with pictures

Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. ~Bertrand Russell



The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking at the next decimal place. ~F.K. Richtmeyer



Avoid all needle drugs - the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon. ~Abbie Hoffman



She was part of that generation who grew up during the Depression. But the Depression to her was like a trip to Six Flags. ~David Chase, The Sopranos, "The Sopranos," original airdate 10 January 1999, spoken by the character Tony Soprano



Congratulations! You're not perfect! It's ridiculous to want to be perfect anyway. But then, everybody's ridiculous sometimes, except perfect people. You know what perfect is? Perfect is not eating or drinking or talking or moving a muscle or making even the teensiest mistake. Perfect is never doing anything wrong - which means never doing anything at all. Perfect is boring! So you're not perfect! Wonderful! Have fun! Eat things that give you bad breath! Trip over your own shoelaces! Laugh! Let somebody else laugh at you! Perfect people never do any of those things. All they do is sit around and sip weak tea and think about how perfect they are. But they're really not one-hundred-percent perfect anyway. You should see them when they get the hiccups! Phooey! Who needs 'em? You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week. ~Stephen Manes, Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!



Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else. ~Winston Churchill



Every man dies. Not every man really lives. ~Braveheart



Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear - and devils, too. ~Terri Guillemets



The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it. ~Roger Bannister



Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. ~Charles Dickens



I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. ~James K. Feibleman



They're sure housework won't kill you, but why take the risk? Author Unknown



I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. ~Arthur C. Clarke



Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates. ~Fernando Pessoa



My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. ~Louis Adamic



A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. ~James H. Boren