Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

The Pursuit of Happiness,-Will Smith

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory -- the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, ''All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.'' And they did.

Jimmy: "What if the sky was pink?" Adam: "You would wonder what it was like if it was blue. This is it.

Everybody might not be happy. But now we know where we're going.

Joe: What is known as the United States' attic? Andy: Massachusetts? Joe: No, the Smithsonian. (Later...) Andy: What was the name of Barbara Walters' first television partner? Joe: Jack Dempsey?;"During a game of Trivial Pursuit at 2 in the morning.

A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference...

Talk is cheap. But if it keeps your stomach full and your grave empty, it's worth more than gold" -Mike Smith

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -;"Douglas Adams, "Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Did you ever notice the people who are most adamantly against abortions are people so ugly you wouldn't want to touch them in the first place?;"George Carlin

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Who is this God person anyway?;"Douglas Adams

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?-Adam Smith

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.Adam Smith

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.

What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Keep not your roses for my dead, cold brow the way is lonely, let me feel them now.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.