Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Hill

The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

Lord Byron

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

Malcolm Forbes

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

Og Mandino

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

Norman Rockwell

If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.

Norman Lear

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

Heidi Julavits

I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous, and this story is not meant to be humorous. This story is meant to winch your ribs open and tamper with your heart. This story is meant to make you realize that your chances of happiness in this world are terribly slim if you lack a fine imagination.

Hilaire Belloc

But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.

Henry Ward Beecher

Mirth is God's medicine.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Joe Grant

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.

Eric Sevareid

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Ayn Rand

If you want to feel good, be rational.

Ayn Rand

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

Ayn Rand

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

Ayn Rand

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Edsger Dijkstra

PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

Henry Ward Beecher

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Terence

As a person is so must you humor them.

John Callahan

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

There's a lot of humor and satire in that one.

Gordon B. Hinckley

We need to have a little humor in our lives. .If the time ever comes when we can't smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Herb Caen

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

Henry David Thoreau

We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry; yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is.

Eugene Ionesco

When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.

Erma Bombeck

One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other..

Erma Bombeck

A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. "What shall we name the other one?" I smiled. She was not amused.

Erma Bombeck

Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

Erma Bombeck

I convinced him his luggage had gone to that big Bermuda Triangle in the sky.

Erma Bombeck

We even switched to a newly-formed church across the town that gave one hundred and twenty trading stamps each time we attended. (We now worship a brown and white chicken with a sunburst on its chest.)

Erma Bombeck

People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.