“I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.” — Charles Lamb
Quotations
“Beware of People Who Dislike Cats”
Irish sayings:
- “You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
- “It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.”
- “A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures.”
- “You’ll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.”
- “Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die.”
- “Don’t give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.”
- “Anything will fit a naked man.”
- “The only cure for love is marriage.”
And “He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.”
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“Humankind cannot stand very much reality.” — T.S. Eliot
Freud’s Couch
The couch used by Sigmund Freud during psychoanalytic sessions. “I have found little that is good about human beings,” he wrote. “In my experience most of them are trash.”
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“The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.” — Aristotle
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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” — A.A. Milne
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“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” — Albert Einstein
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“A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.” — W.C. Fields
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“We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don’t know.” — W.H. Auden
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“Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‘we.'” — Mark Twain