INSPIRATIONAL & FUNNY QUOTES
Use it up ... Wear it out ...
Make it do ... Or do without.
Here I sit broken-hearted,
tried to shit but only farted...Later on I took a chance, tried to fart and
shit my pants!
The early bird catches the
worm, but the early worm gets eaten
Diplomacy is the art of
letting someone else get your way
Life is not so much a matter
of position as of disposition
The best vitamin for making
friends, B-1
If you don't care where
you're going any road will get you there
A pint of example is worth a
gallon of advice
He who throws mud loses
ground
Nobody raises his own
reputation by lowering others
Nothing ruins the truth like
stretching it
A smile is an inexpensive way
to change your looks
Ideas won't work unless you
do
The future is purchased by
the present
One thing you can't recycle
is wasted time
Lost time is never found
again
A hard thing about business
is minding your own
Triumph is just
"umph" added to "try"
Caution is not cowardly.
Carelessness is not courage
He who forgives ends the
quarrel
Children need more models
than critics
Frogs have it easy, they can
eat what bugs them
The pursuit of happiness is
the chase of a life time
If the going gets easy you
may be going downhill
Dieters - People that are
thick and tired of it
Jumping to conclusions can be
a bad exercise
The best labor saving device
is doing it tomorrow
A turtle makes progress when
it sticks its neck out
Failure is the path of least
persistence
Hard work is the yeast that
raises the dough
Patience is counting down
without blasting off
God's last name is not
"Dammit"
Some folks won't look up
until they are flat on their backs
If you want your dreams to
come true, don't over sleep
Friend - One who knows all
about you and likes you just the same
Money talks and often just
says, "Good Bye"
Birds have bills too, and
they keep on singing
Forbidden fruit is
responsible for many a bad jam
God's retirement plan is out
of this world
A good example is the best
sermon
The Ten Commandments are not
multiple choice
Well done! is better than
Well said!
Minds are like parachutes -
they only function when open
Live as you wish your kids
would
Swallowing your pride seldom
leads to indigestion
If you can laugh at it then
you can live with it
People don't fail, they give
up
When looking for faults use a
mirror, not a telescope
Smile, it takes only 13
muscles; A frown takes 64
Kindness, a language deaf
people can hear and blind see
Heaviest thing to carry - a
grudge
A smooth sea never made a
skillful sailor
A small leak can sink a great
ship
You can't direct the wind but
you can adjust your sails
We lie loudest when we lie to
ourselves
Tact is ability to see others
as they wish to be seen
A bad conscience has a very
good memory
Hug your kids at home - belt
them in the car
One thing you can give and still
keep is your word
A friend walks in when
everyone else walks out
If you must cry over spilled
milk then please try to condense it
Behavior is the mirror in
which everyone shows their image
Make friends before you need
them
It's not the load that breaks
you down, it's the way you carry it
The smallest good deed is
better than the grandest intention
Success is...more attitude
than aptitude
Our favorite attitude should
be gratitude
The greatest of all faults is
to imagine you have none
Too many of us speak twice
before we think
Some people develop eye
strain looking for trouble
Everyone has 20/20 hindsight
The happiness of your life
depends on the quality of your thoughts
It is much easier to be
critical than to be correct
Feed your faith and doubt
will starve to death
It is no crime not to be
perfect
If others have sinned you
need not mention it
No man knows less than the
man who knows it all
Patience carries a lot of
wait
One who lacks courage to
start has already finished
A quitter never wins, and a
winner never quits
Action speaks louder than
words but not nearly as often
Break a bad habit - drop it
Don't learn safety rules
simply by accident
By failing to prepare we
prepare to fail
Past failures are guideposts
to success
There is no right way to do a
wrong thing
Read the Bible - it will
scare the hell out of you
An atheist is a person who
has no visible means of support
Money is a good servant but
it is a cruel master
Seek joy in what you give not
in what you get
Procrastination is the thief
of time
Success comes in cans...
Failure comes in can'ts
Anger is one letter short of
danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay
2/3 of promotion is motion
Having a sharp tongue will
cut your throat
Of all the things you wear,
your expression is most important
Live fast, die young, leave a
good looking corpse.
"A day without laughter
is a day wasted."
If I have seen farther than
others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
Quarrels would not last long
if the fault were only on one side.
I would sooner fail than not
be among the greatest.
"The roots of knowledge
are bitter, but its fruit are sweet."
"Be careful of reading
health books; you may die of a misprint."
"Morality is the
herd-instinct in the individual."
Time is just nature's way of
keeping everything from happening at once.
While money can't buy
happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
We might call ourselves
human, but we're still just animals
It's kind of fun to do the
impossible.
The confidence of ignorance
will always overcome indecision of knowledge.
"Gratitude is not only
the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
Fashion is a form of ugliness
so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
The only way to get rid of a
temptation is to yield to it.
"Cynics are made, not
born."
"Are we alone in an
uncaring universe, or is God some kind of wise guy?"
"It's a funny old
world!"
"Pride only hurts. It
never helps."
The worst tempered people I
have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
The most savage controversies
are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Beauty is power; a smile is
its sword.
If you hate a person, you
hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves
doesn't disturb us.
Maybe this world is another
planet's hell.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
People who know little are
usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Real knowledge is to know the
extent of one's ignorance.
We don't see things as they
are, we see them as we are.
Let us be of good cheer,
remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
Ten people who speak make
more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Experience is not what
happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
You know you've read a good
book when you turn the last page and feel as if you've lost a friend.
The quickest way to end a war
is to lose it.
A man may die, nations may
rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
We must either find a way or
make one.
"Wise men talk because
they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
Vision without action is
merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action
can change the world.
Life shrinks or expands in
proportion to one's courage.
People are divided into two
groups - the righteous and the unrighteous - and the righteous do the dividing.
If you do not tell the truth
about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Don't drown the man who
taught you to swim.
Never exaggerate your faults.
Your friends will attend to that.
Let us all be happy and live
within our means, even if we have to borrow money to do it.
I have found little that is
good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.
I don't believe in
stereotypes, I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis
Wink at small faults;
remember thou hast great ones.
It is a miracle that
curiosity survives formal education.
This world is a comedy to
those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Talk sense to a fool and he
calls you foolish.
It is easier to fight for
one's principles than to live up to them.
Logic is like the sword:
those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
All they that take the sword
shall perish with the sword.
Now we are all sons of
bitches.
We must learn to live
together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Nothing in the world is more
dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Knowing ignorance is
strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness."
Education costs money, but
then so does ignorance.
Human history becomes more
and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Pity is reserved for those
who have no fight left in them.
Our progress as a nation can
be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental
resource.
What's the point in doing
something worthwhile if nobody can see you?
An eye for an eye will make
the whole world go blind.
Whenever you fall, pick
something up.
Defeat is worse than death
because you have to live with defeat.
It is easier to get
forgiveness than permission.
Men argue, Nature acts.
Hell and destruction are
never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
It is easier to forgive an
enemy than to forgive a friend.
No really great man ever
thought himself so.
The measure of a truly great
man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men.
It is necessary for us to
learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all
yourself.
This thing that we call
'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Battle not with monsters,
lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes
into you.
Do the thing you fear most
and the death of fear is certain.
Everything a human being
wants can be divided into four components -- love, adventure, power and fame.
"Of all the creatures on
this planet none is more dangerous than a human being."
How embarrassing to be human.
Imagination is more important
than knowledge.
Knowledge is Power.
He who shits on the road will
meet flies on his return.
Like winter snow on summer
lawn, time past is time gone.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied
man, and I'll show you a failure.
"Don't be afraid to take
a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
"They stand like
infantry at dawn waiting to be shipped to the front."
A lifetime of happiness! No
man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
If you believe everything you
read, better not read.
The difficulty in life is the
choice.
Hell is truth seen too late.
Love is the distance between
reality and pain.
"The only thing in life
that's guaranteed is failure, to succeed you must be willing to take
risks."
Too little knowledge is a bad
thing.
Life's a whore and I'm broke.
It's easier to complain than
to rule.
The mission of life: Live;
Love; Learn; Leave a Legacy.
Your god is dead and only the
ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!
All easy problems have
already been solved.
Only the good die young...
The twisted ones might live for ever!
A work of art is never
finished, only abandoned.
Fighting for peace is like
fucking for virginity!
People with narrow minds
usually have broad tongues.
The only good is knowledge,
the only evil is ignorance.
Power corrupts.
Old soldiers never die. Young
ones do.
Whenever they burn books,
they will also, in the end, burn people.
A generation which ignores
history has no past -- and no future.
We have met the enemy and he
is us.
For earth to heal, we must
die. No one deserves it more.
It's better to burn out than
to fade away.
Who watches the Watchmen?
Quin custodiet custodes ipsos? -- Who will guard the guardians?
Life is different, for he who
has touched death.
It's not the monuments that
teaches us history. It's the ruins.
Despair is the mother of
inventions.
Time is a great master,
unfortunately it kills all its apprentices.
You should tell the truth,
but all truths doesn't need to be told.
A liar needs a good memory.
Hell never grows full.
Even Satan can build a cross.
If all people were righteous
no one would need to be brave.
A cynic is a man who knows
the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Don't get mad, get even.
There is hopeful symbolism in
the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
Never offend people with
style when you can offend them with substance.
Reality is for people who
lack imagination.
Talking much about oneself
can also be a means to conceal oneself.
When asked by an
anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an
Indian said simply "Ours."
When the blind lead the blind
they will both fall over the cliff.
If you are afraid of
loneliness, don't marry.
I never knew what true
happiness was till I got married. And then it was too late.
Marriage means commitment. Of
course, so does insanity.
When you have to kill a man
it costs nothing to be polite.
Yield to Temptation... it may
not pass your way again.
I'm not cynical. Just
experienced.
A great many people think
they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Half of the people in the
world are below average.
There's so much comedy on
television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Be regular and orderly in
your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
Masturbation is nothing to be
ashamed of. It's nothing to be particularly proud of, either.
Things should be as simple as
possible, but not simpler.
There's nothing I like less
than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Passionate hatred can give
meaning and purpose to an empty life.
It was as small as the hope
in a dead man's eyes.
It's better to be judged by
twelve, than carried by six...
If the opposite of
"pro" is "con", then what's the opposite of
"progress"?
I am not a vegetarian because
I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A Puritan is someone who is
deathly afraid that someone, somewhere, is having fun.
A conservative is a man who
believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
A conservative is a man with
two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.
I think you should defend to
the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball
bats.
Puritanism: The haunting fear
that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
The hottest places in hell
are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their
neutrality
The difference between a
politician and a snail is that a snail leaves its slime behind.
Blessed are the young, for
they shall inherit the national debt.
A citizen of America will
cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a
national election.
The rich will do anything for
the poor but get off their backs.
If Karl, instead of writing a
lot about capital, had made a lot of it ...it would have been much better.
The end move in politics is
always to pick up a gun.
Military intelligence is a
contradiction in terms.
We are going to have peace
even if we have to fight for it.
Gentlemen! You can't fight in
here; this is the war room!
Read my lips -- know new
taxes.
Politicians should read
science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
There are no scientific tests
for race... blood is blood, and bone is bone. Race is a con game. Don't play.
What is the market? It is the
law of the jungle. And what is civilization? It is the struggle against nature.
If you want to know what god
thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Never in the field of human
conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
"This is not the end. It
is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the
beginning."
Politics is like a sock --
stinking and hollow.
Eat your money and die!
"The only thing
necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
The greatest threats towards
future: Indifference, intolerance and ignorance.
Those who don't remember the
past are condemned to repeat it.
It's better to be judged by
twelve, than carried by six.
High hopes give you a chance
to be disappointed
"You should always have
high hopes. Otherwise you won't be disappointed."
When people are free to do as
they please, they usually imitate each other.
The mind is like a parachute.
It doesn't work unless it's open.
"Mankind must put an end
to War, or War will put an end to Mankind."
"I know not with what
weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with
sticks and stones."
"The world grows older
and grows with the ageing yet more evil."
The early bird gets the worm.
Yes this is true, but the early worm gets eaten.
Dream as if you'll live
forever. Live as if you'll die today
A winner listens, a looser
just waits untill it is their turn to talk.
Every great achievement was
once impossible.
Sometimes the best helping
hand you can give is a good, firm push.
It is a good thing for an
uneducated man to read a book of quotations
Without tradition, art is a
flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
When God closes a door he
opens a window... And then pushes you right out.
Nothing is impossible to the
man who doesn't have to do it himself.
Being all things to all
people means that you're nothing to no one.
Know your enemy, and in one
hundred battles you will never be defeated
What we need is not the will
to believe, but the wish to find out.
There is much pleasure to be
gained from useless knowledge.
Patriotism is the willingness
to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
We are all contributing to
the inevitable.
Don't imitate, innovate!
People with narrow minds
usually have large mouths.
"Giving money and power
to governments is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys"
In short, the things he did
were done because it was easier to do them than not to do them.
There is a fine line between
fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
I think animal testing is a
terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
"Very funny, Scotty. Now
beam down my clothes."
What is a committee? A group
of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
I am not a vegetarian because
I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Indecision is the key to
flexibility.
There is absolutely no
substitute for a genuine lack of preparation.
Sometimes too much to drink
is not enough.
The facts although
interesting are irrelevant.
Things are more like they are
today than they ever were before.
Anything worth fighting for
is worth fighting dirty for.
I have seen the truth and it
makes no sense.
If you can smile when things
go wrong you have someone in mind to blame.
Not one shred of evidence
supports the notion that life is serious.
There is always one more
imbecile than you counted on.
No matter where you go, there
you are.
If at first you dont succeed,
try reading the directions.
He who laughs last thinks
slowest.
A penny saved is a penny.
There is a fine line between fishing
and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
My theory of evolution is
that Darwin was adopted.
A Freudian slip is when you
say one thing but mean your mother.
Madness takes its toll...
Please have exact change.
Applying computer technology
is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw.
Writing about music is like
dancing about architecture.
Experience is that marvelous
thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Sorry but my karma just ran
over your dogma.
Drawing on my fine command of
language I said nothing.
How did a fool and his money
get together?
For every action there is an
equal and opposite criticism.
To succeed in politics it is
often necessary to rise above your principles.
The problem with the gene
pool is that there is no lifeguard.
The sooner you fall behind
the more time you'll have to catch up.
What if there were no
hypothetical situations?
He who dies with the most
toys is, nonetheless, still dead.
Save the whales. Collect the
whole set.
Diplomacy is the art of
saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
A penny saved is ridiculous.
It is not possible to ski
thru a revolving door.
Always remember that you are
unique. Just like everyone else.
Booze is the answer. I don't
remember the question.
Flee at once, all is
discovered!
In spite of all evidence to
the contrary, the entire universe is composed of only two basic substances:
Magic and bullshit.
God bless Atheism!
He who trains his tongue to
quote the learned sages, will be known far and wide as a smart ass.
A witty saying proves
nothing.
After all, all he did was
string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
I believe that Ronald Reagan
will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
I drink to make other people
interesting.
I'm not under the alkafluence
of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am.
It's just the drunker I sit
here the longer I get.
If God had meant for us to be
naked, we would have been born that way.
Most legislators are so dumb
that they couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on
the heel.
Never settle with words what
you can accomplish with a flame thrower.
Sex is one of the nine
reasons for reincarnation... the other eight are unimportant.
"My life is like a
porno-movie, without the sex".
Everyone needs belief in
something. I believe I'll have another beer.
I think I could fall madly in
bed with you.
If you can't dazzle 'em with
brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit.
I don't have a drinking
problem...I drink..I get drunk...I fall down...No problem
A Freudian slip is when you
say one thing but mean your mother.
Americans never recognize an
idea unless it has white wings or a forked tail.
I will endure all this
subhuman driveling shit with a smile.
If you can not answer a man's
argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names.
To work hard, to live hard,
to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
Quoting: the act of repeating
erroneously the words of another.
Camouflage condoms: So they
won't see you coming.
You can't expect to wield
supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Seen on the door to a
light-wave lab: "Do not look into laser with remaining good eye."
Beam me up, Scotty. No
intelligent life forms down here.
I doubt whether nurses are
virgins.
I generally avoid temptation
unless I can't resist it.
I love work; it fascinates
me; I can sit and watch it for hours.
To be, or what?
"All the parts falling
off this car are of the very finest British manufacture"
"Honest Officer, had I
known my health stood in jeopardy I would never had lit one."
An unfortunate person is one
tries to fart but shits instead.
A miserable person is one who
truly enjoys a fart but can't.
"Where is an elephants
sex organ? In his feet. If he steps on you, you're fucked."
"Of course you found it
in the last place you looked. If you hadn't found it you'd still be
looking"
Anarchists of the world,
unite!
It is now beyond any doubt
that cigarettes are the biggest cause of statistics.
Living on Earth is expensive,
but it does include a free trip around the sun.
Why doesn't the fattest man
in the world become a hockey goalie?
Booze may not be the answer,
but it helps you to forget the question.
I won't have a battle of wits
with an unarmed opponent.
In a Russian tragedy,
everybody dies. In a Russian comedy, everybody dies too. But they die happy.
"Earth: Mostly
Harmless."
"Flying is simple. You
just throw yourself at the ground and miss."
"Your chances of getting
hit by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky
and say "Storms suck!".
"A hangover is when you
open your eyes in the morning and wish you hadn't."
"When I read about the
evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
He who laughs last thinks
slowest.
Beauty is in the eye of the
beer holder.
There are three kinds of
people: those who can count, and those who can't.
Why is
"abbreviation" such a long word?
I'd explain it to you, but
your brain would explode.
Ever stop to think, and
forget to start again?
A conclusion is simply the
place where you got tired of thinking.
I don't have a solution but I
admire the problem.
Don't be so open-minded that
your brains fall out.
Car service: If it ain't
broke, we'll break it.
A penny saved is ridiculous.
Ambition is a poor excuse for
not having enough sense to be lazy.
"Always carry a flagon
of whiskey in case of snakebite, and, furthermore, always carry a small
snake."
"Don't hate yourself in the
morning - sleep till noon."
"Cure virginity!"
"Today is the first day
of the rest of your life - celebrate now!"
"It's me and you against
the world. So when do we attack?"
"If you can read this
you're not aiming in the right direction."
"Be careful -- Your
family's future is in your hands."
"Together we're too
many!"
"You are not thinking.
You are merely being logical."
"All imaginable
inventions have already been invented."
"If Darwin's theory of
evolution was correct, cats would be able to operate a can opener by now."
A consultant is a person who
borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets the watch, and sends you
a bill for it.
Many nice things suck.
Anyone who uses the phrase
"easy as taking candy from a baby" has never tried taking candy from
a baby.
There are no stupid
questions, just stupid people.
In heaven there is no beer,
that's why we drink it here!
If you can't teach them,
confuse them!
In the first place, God made
idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
WARNING! The dates in
Calender are closer than they apper.
I didn't fight my way to the
top of the food chain to be a vegetarian!
If we aren't supposed to eat
animals, why are they made of meat?
I bet Heaven has no smoking.
Nice guys finish last, I
think I wanna be an asshole.
High school is just a day
care for older kids.
The more you find out about
your computer, the more you realize you don't know.
The thing is, Ive got all the
stuff to file for bankruptcy, but I can't afford it.
Divorce Barbie-comes with all of Ken's stuff.