Quotations
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Things that make me laugh
There are 38 quotations in this collection:
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
- Abraham Lincoln
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
- Abbie Hoffman
Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.
- Adam Sandler
I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing.
- Ade Akinbiyi
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
- Adlai E Stevenson
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
- Adlai E Stevenson
Felicity Blackwell says:
I have confidence...
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
- Adlai E Stevenson
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
- Adlai Stevenson
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
- Adlai Stevenson
I think that a model should not diversify too much from his/her objectives.
- Adriana Karembeu
Felicity Blackwell says:
Those objectives being....?
Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high.
- Adrienne Gusoff
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- Aesop
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
- Agatha Christie
Or what Mr. O' Bannon, are you going to kick my ass? I've read all about your ridiculous escapades. So, how does it feel to kill a Mummy with your bare hands? Only a nation of uneducated rednecks would believe such cowboy drivel.
- Aiden Gillen
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
- Al Gore
When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
- Alan Alda
There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.
- Alan Davies
Perhaps sport should accept sponsorship from the Mafia. They kill fewer people than smoking.
- Alan Hubbard
I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade
- Alan Seeger
It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
- Alan Shepherd
I can't towel-dry my hair, because it'll tangle. So I put a towel on the bed and smack my head on the bed, like, ten times, so all the water will drain out'
- Alanis Morissette
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
- Albert Camus
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
- Albert Camus
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves
- Albert Einstein
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. (Ends and Means)
- Aldous Huxley
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
- Aldous Huxley
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
- Aldous Huxley
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
- Aldous Huxley
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
- Aldous Huxley
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- Aldous Huxley
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
- Aldous Huxley
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
- Aldous Huxley
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour.
- Aldous Huxley
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.
- Alexai Sayle
