Funny Quotes and Sayings
There won't be any revolution in America...The people are all too clean. They spend all their time changing their shorts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom. ~ Eric Robert Linklater. Lady Peabury was in the morning room reading a novel; early training gave a guilty spice to this recreation, for she had been brought up to believe that to read a novel before luncheon was one of the gravest sins it was possible for a gentlewoman to commit. ~ Evelyn Waugh. No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this ' 'devoted and obedient'. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman. ~ Florence Nightingale. As to marriage on the part of man, my dear, Society requires that he should retrieve the fortunes by marriage. Society requires that he should gain by marriage. Society requires that he should found a handsome establishment by marriage. Society does not see, otherwise, what he has to do with marriage. ' ~ Charles Dickens. Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware that he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year. ~ Tim Burton. Romanticism is the art of presenting people with the literary works which are capable of affording them the greatest possible pleasures in the present state of their customs and beliefs. Classicism...presents them with the literature that gave the greatest possible pleasure to their grand-fathers. ~ Stendhal. “Would you - be good enough -” Alice panted out, after running a little further, “to stop a minute - just to get - one’s breath again?” “I’m good enough,” the King said, “only I’m not strong enough. You see, a minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!” ~ Lewis Carroll. |
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