funny sayings and quotes

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ~St. Augustine


Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. ~Katherine Anne Porter


What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. ~Abraham Lincoln


We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice. ~Carter Woodson, 1926


In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together. ~Ralph W. Sockman


If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. ~F. Wikzek


Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. ~G.K. Chesterton


I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. ~Arthur Godfrey


The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb


A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. ~Baltasar Gracian


Nature is a writer's best friend. ~Agave Powers


If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise. ~Logain Clendening


Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration - and get between you and it. ~Arthur Bridges


Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams


A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb


Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. ~Henry David Thoreau


Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. ~Henri Amiel


Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore


Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. ~Kahlil Gibran


Time spent with cats is never wasted. ~May Sarton