funny quotes by famous people

To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it. ~Charles Neaves


He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. ~Proverbs 17:9


I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam. ~Richard Bach


Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald


Words want to be free! ~Author Unknown


What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. ~George Balanchine


Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body. ~Irene Claremont de Castillejo


Cities are the abyss of the human species. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile


Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. ~Dodie Smith, I Capture The Castle Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. ~Dodie Smith, I Capture The Castle Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied. ~Edward Cheyfitz


A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow


There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook. ~Groucho Marx


Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter. ~Lemony Snicket


Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. ~Virginia Burden


History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious. ~Paul Valery, Regards sur le Monde Actuel


My other car is a Zamboni. ~Hockey Saying


We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves? ~Morris Adler


The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life� the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril. ~Richard Baker


A neurotic whose problems are solved was never a neurotic to begin with. ~Terri Guillemets


Information should be used as food for thought, not poison to the soul. ~Shellie R. Warren