funny quotes about life and love

I'm allergic to food. Every time I eat it breaks out into fat. ~Jennifer Greene Duncan


It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. ~Seneca


Sewing fills my days, not to mention the living room, bedroom, and closets. ~Author Unknown


It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, 1891


~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, much later adapted to "So shines a good deed in a weary world" by David Seltzer for the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Thanks Aidan!)


It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet. ~Kojiro Tomita


The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? ~Nicholas Rowe


I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play. ~Simon Gray, 1995


Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. ~Rita Rudner


Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. ~Oscar Wilde Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success. ~Svatmarama, Hatha Yoga Pradipika


My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop. ~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


We are asleep with compasses in our hands. ~W.S. Merwin


When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. ~George Bernard Shaw


Nurses are patient people. ~Author Unknown


Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment. ~Ira Gassen


Golf without mistakes is like watching haircuts. A dinner without wine. ~Jim Murray


Mine is the night, with all her stars. ~Edward Young


A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. ~Aesop, Fables


What is one man's meat is another man's rank poison. ~Lucretius


Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. ~William R. Inge