USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
David Letterman (1947 - )

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
Quentin Crisp

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.
Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991

Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.
Audrey Giorgi

I feel about airplaines the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Jean Kerr

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P. D. James, Time to Be in Earnest

Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.
Bob Moawad

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
Dorothy Sarnoff

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784),

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, 1854

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin (1935 - )

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
Al Capone (1899 - 1947)

Thanks to The Qutations Page for these fine quotes.


copyright 2004 Dyana Cooper