Certain Thoughts & Expressions.....

When a certain thought or expression could be identified with anything within me, or when it was found true in my own experience, then I have included it in this compilation :

1. Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift, That’s why it’s called – The present.
2. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. – Wilson Mizner
3. I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
4. Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to – George Sealon.
5. Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. – Henry Mencken
6. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. – Lucius Annacus
7. Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet ( and go on living in hunger, filth, and ignorance) – Napoleon Bonaparte
8. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. – Voltaire
9. It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him. – Joseph Tonbert
10. Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
11. About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. – Gloria Pitzer
12. As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him. – Jean Paul Richter
13. The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another. – Horace
14. You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.
15. If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live…the guarantee of continuity is quality. – Eddie Richkenbacker
16. Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. – Washington Irving
17. By the time a man realizes that may be his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
18. Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that’s down can come up. – George Burns
19. Love is all fun and games, until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant. – Jim Cole
20. Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
21. If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
22. One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
23. The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. – Elie Wiesel
24. Sex outside marriage is sin; sex within marriage is not sin. – Bertrand Russell
25. Marriage is the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all , two. – Ambrose Bierce.
26. Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. – Albert Einstein
27. Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends, you order what you want, then when you see what the other fellow has, you wish you had ordered that.
28. Women might be able to fake orgasms, but men can fake whole relationships. – Sharon Stone
29. How are women and tornadoes alike ? They both moan like hell when they come, and take the home when they leave.
30. Sex is like air; it’s not important unless you aren’t getting any.
31. A kiss can be a coma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That’s basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
32. If you cannot get what you like, why not try to like what you get ?
33. A kiss : To a young girl, faith, to a married woman, hope, to an old maid, charity.
34. Man has will, but woman has her way. – Oliver Wendeel
35. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money costs less. – Brendan Francis
36. You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. – Henny Youngman
37. Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. – Woody Allen
38. Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others. – Ambrose Bierce
39. It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. – Albert Camus
40. Virtue is it’s own punishment.
41. Life is like an onion : you peel off layer after layer, then you find there is nothing in it.
42. As is a tale, so is life : not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. – Seneca
43. The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings. _ Okakaura Kaknzo
44. Eat right. Stay fit. Die anyway.
45. Dieting : wishful shrinking.
46. Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.
47. Don’t judge a book by its movie.
48. Courage atrophies from lack of use.
49. All that is free, cost some thing later.
50. Bad habits are like comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
51. It is often easier to fight fir principles than to live up to them. – Adlai Stevenson
52. It is not how much we have , but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. – Charles H.Spurgeon
53. Opinions can not survive if one has no chance to gight for them. – Thomas Mann
54. Home is not where you live but where they ubderstand you. – Christian Morgensrm
55. A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerate your successes.
56. Marriage is a three rig circus; engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
57. People who drink to drown their sorrow ahould be told that sorrow knows how to swim. – Ann Landers
58. The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. – Sven Goran Eriksson
59. Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
60. Opportunities multiply as they are seized. – Sun Tzu
61. Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. – Khalil Gibran
62.Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you’re pouring, or drinking. – Bill Cosby
63. A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. – Caskie Stinnett
64. Whoever said money can’t buy everything didn’t know where to shop.
65. Anger is one letter short of danger.
66. Learn from the mistake of others, because you can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
67. Most good judgment come from experience. Most experience comes from bad judgment.
68. My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
69. The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
70. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
71. Many wealthy people are like more than janitors of their possessions.- Frank Lloyd Wright
72. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. – Oscar Wilde
73. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. – Samuel Johnson
74. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.- Nikita Khrushchev
75. Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.- H.L.Mecken
76. A goodbye isn’t painful unless you’re never going to say hello again.
77. A bank is a place where they land you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.- Robert Frost
78. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.- Oscar Wilde
79. Any thing good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.- Pardo
80. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby
81. Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. – Will Rogers
82. A day without laughter is a day wasted. – Charlie Chaplin
83. Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity. – Albert Einstein
84. A rich man’s joke is always funny.
85. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
86. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
87. Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. – Bertrand Russell
88. If you would know the value of money , go and try to borrow some. – Benjamin Franklin
89. Love your neighbors , but don’t pull down the fence. – Chinese proverb
90. A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else’s money. – Carter Glass
91. No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo
92. A fool and his money are soon parted, but you never call him fool till the money is gone.
93. A student is not a vessel to be filled, but a lamp to be lighted.
94. The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
95. The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than settled.
96. There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.
97. Gratitude is merely the secret hope of future favors.
98. Friendship is like money easier than kept.
99. Business is the art of extracting money from another’s man’s pocket without resorting to violence.
100. Money can’t buy friends but it can get you a better class of enemy. – Spike Milligan
101. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. – Aldons Huxley
102. You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories. – Stanislaw J.Lec
103. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. – Aristotle
104. The bottom line of almost all the problems in the life, is money.
105. There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again answer. Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false ? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions. – John Lubbock
106. An optimist sees opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees calamity in every opportunity.
107. The client who pays the least, complains the most.
108. Every0ne lives by selling something. – Robert Louis Stevenson
109. In character, in manners, in style, in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. – Longfellow
110. Too lose money ill is indeed in the nature of a crime, but to get it ill is a worse one and to spend it ill is worst of all. J.Ruskin
111. Never under estimate your enemies.
112. Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor. – Churton
113. Life is like riding a bicycle, you don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.
114. It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.
115. You can give without loving, but you can’t love without giving.