funny quotes on life and love

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. ~H.L. Mencken



Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. ~Tehyi Hsieh



I think housework is the reason most women go to the office. ~Heloise Cruse



To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg



That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. ~John Berger, The Sense of Sight, 1980



The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? ~Dale Carnegie



Time is the wisest counsellor of all. ~Pericles



A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ~Victor Hugo



One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. ~Michael Cibenko



Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. ~Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois



A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. ~Kahlil Gibran



'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. ~Lord Byron



People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. ~Leo J. Burke



The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time. ~A.L. Rowse, The Use of History



Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. ~Gore Vidal



An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. ~Henry Wotton, Reliqui? Wottonian?



We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. ~Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present



Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. ~Author Unknown