QUOTATIONS TO BRIGHTEN ANY WEEKEND -7-

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Another week, another selection of quotations - some famous, some infamous.

Please keep your quotations coming:

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Here's one I like to kick off:

Body: Your body is the baggage you must carry through life.  The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.

(Arnold H. Glasow)

Faith: It was the schoolboy who said, "Faith is believing what you know ain't so."

(Mark Twain)

Friends:  People who borrow books and set wet glasses on them.

(Edwin Arlington Robinson, 20th century poet)

Friendship: Friendship is like money, easier made than

kept,

(Samuel Butler, English writer 1835-1902)

Friendship: Friendship is more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

(Oscar Wilde)

Future: That period of time in which affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

(Ambrose Bierce)

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

(Wilson Mizner, 20th century US wit)

Genius: Genius is born, not paid.

(Oscar Wilde)

Genius: A genius is one who can do anything except making a living.

(Joey Adams, 20th century US comedian)

Gesticulation: Any movement made by a foreigner.

(J.B. Morton)

Gossip:  Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

(Walter Winchell, 20th century US columnist)

Home: Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they will have to take you in.
(Robert Frost)

Imitation:  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
(Oscar Wilde)

Imitation:  Imitation is the sincerest for of television.
(Fred Allen)

Jury: A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
(Robert Frost)

Liberal: A liberal is a man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
(Robert Frost)

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
(Ambrose Bierce)

Life: Life is rather like a tin of sardines: we're all of us looking for the key.
(Alan Bennett, Beyond the Fringe)

Life: Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
(George Santayana)

Life: Life is an incurable disease.
(Abraham Cowley, poet)

Life: Life is one damned this after another.
(Kin Hubbard, US humorist)

Logic: Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
(Joseph Wood Krutch, 20th century scholar and critic)

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
(Ambrose Bierce)

Love: Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
(Jerome K Jerome)

Man:  A creature God created at the end of a week's work when God was tired.
(Mark Twain)



Sex: Continental people have a sex life;  the English have hot water bottles.

(Georges Mikes)

err! As an Englishman - no comment!!!



More next week.



. . . . and finally please stop by at Eva's for her Weekend Silliness feature HERE