Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up. ~Evelyn Hendrickson Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up. ~Evelyn Hendrickson
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. ~Jackie Mason
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities, still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. ~Charles Darwin, Descent of Man, 1871
We are not proving ourselves spiritually worthy of our material progress. We have not been neighborly, courteous, and kind upon the highway. Our lack of decency toward our fellow men is a definite black mark against us. ~Cary T. Grayson
The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones we can't even begin to think about in any very definite way. Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions. ~Ronald L. Graham
And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk. ~Bill Knott, "(End) of Summer (1966)" (Thanks, Laurie)
I love to play hide and seek with my kid, but some days my goal is to find a hiding place where he can't find me until after high school. ~Author Unknown
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. ~Christopher Morley
A Horseman should know neither fear, nor anger. ~James Rarey
You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up. ~C.A.R. Hoare
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. ~Martin Golding
Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another checkout line. ~Ann Landers
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ~James Joyce
In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport. ~Neil McElroy
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ~Luis Bunuel
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. ~Voltaire
The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess. ~John Gay, The Beggar's Opera
What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out. ~Agnes Repplier
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ~Georges Rouault
Sometimes I have to stand on my head to see things as they are, when the world seems so upside-down that this is the only position in which anything makes sense. ~Author Unknown
Talk doesn't cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
What is stronger than a mother's love? The smell of spring onions on your girl's breath. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902
We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960