Denisewixer's Funny Senior Quotes Weblog

inspirational word of support

denisewixer — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:27:34 +0000

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
~inspirational word of support by Izaak Walton

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again
~saying about word of support by William Shakespeare

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.
~quote about Conformity by George Santayana

What happen to us is but a trifle compared to what happened in us.
~quotes on Emotions by

Never neglect the power of heroic words to generate strength and power. Daily repeat words of power, strength, courage, self-confidence, success. Words set the tone of mind. They dictate our thoughts, our acts, our attitudes, and our habits – lives and fortunes.
~sayings on Self Improvement by

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.
~quotations on Quotations by Richard Kemph

quotations on Helping

denisewixer — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:26:23 +0000

Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have.
~quotations on Helping by Christopher Morley

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
~inspirational dance quotes by Lucille Ball

Great art picks up where nature ends.
~saying about dance by Marc Chagall

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
~quote about Gossip by F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
~quotes on Men by Mae West

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
~sayings on Hypocrisy by Alfred Adler

Four freedoms: The first is freedom of speech and expression – everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of everyone to worship God in his own way, everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want . . . everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear . . . anywhere in the world
~quotations on Freedom by Franklin D. Roosevelt

funny weather sayings

denisewixer — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:25:18 +0000

Are we not like two volumes of one book?
~funny weather sayings by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.
~saying about weather by Henry Louis Mencken

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.
~quote about Living by Jean-Louis Barrault

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
~quotes on Writing by Henry David Thoreau

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education
~sayings on Birth by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There’s a saying among prospectors: Go out looking for one thing, and that’s all you’ll ever find.
~quotations on Attitude by Robert Flaherty

Heart attacks… God’s revenge for eating his little animal friends.
~funny weather sayings by Author Unknown

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.
~saying about weather by Fats Domino

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
~quote about Politics by Author Unknown

This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.
~quotes on Grammar by Attributed to Winston Churchill, rejecting the rule against ending a sentence with a preposition, c.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
~sayings on Business by Henry Ford

good inspirational quote

denisewixer — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:24:10 +0000

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
~good inspirational quote by Lily Tomlin

God is real, unless declared integer.
~saying about inspirational by Author Unknown

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.
~quote about Soccer by Ondino Viera

Hospitality, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
~quotes on Guests by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911

If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.
~sayings on Cinema by Norman McLaren

I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and – this always amazes me – not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a good hit, which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player’s body.
~quotations on American football by Dave Barry

In union there is strength
~good inspirational quote by Aesop

It’s easy enough to be pleasant, when life flow a long like a song, but the man worthwhile is the man with a smile, when everything goes dead wrong.
~saying about inspirational by

quotes about Government by George Bernard Shaw

denisewixer — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:22:08 +0000

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you’re just a reflection of him?
~sayings about football by Calvin and Hobbes

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.
~quotes about Government by George Bernard Shaw

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored.
~famous football quote by Alice Walker

Journalism largely consists in saying Lord Jones is dead to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
~saying on Media Journalism by G.K. Chesterton

Saint Patrick was a gentleman…Who through strategy and stealth…Drove all the snakes from Ireland…Here’s a drinkee to his health! But not too many drinkees…Lest we lose ourselves and then…Forget the good Saint Patrick…And see them snakes again
~famous football quote by Unknown

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks
~football by A.A. Milne

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
~sayings about football by Plutarch

best motivational quotes by Heywood Broun

denisewixer — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:20:59 +0000

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
~best motivational quotes by Heywood Broun

Science is simply common sense at its best.
~saying on Science by Thomas Huxley

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.
~best motivational quotes by Vida D. Scudder

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
~best by Novalis

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
~sayings about best by Martin Mull

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
~quotes about Excuses by Jules Renard

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
~best motivational quotes by Gloria Steinem

Three-fourths of the Earth’s surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.
~saying on Housework by Chuck Clark

quotes about Autumn by Oliver Wendell Holmes

denisewixer — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:19:56 +0000

Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people – and kill them.
~sayings about a few men by Pacifist Badge, 1978

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
~quotes about Autumn by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.
~a few good men quotes by Samuel Butler, Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 February 1895

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
~saying on Humankind by Christopher Morley, Human Being

Yeah, he’s in pain except between the first and ninth innings
~a few good men quotes by Dave Bristol

Sisters don’t need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks – expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs – that can undermine any tale you’re telling.
~a few men by Pam Brown

Our favourite holding period is forever
~sayings about a few men by Warren Buffet

famous religious quotes by Jeff Hayes

denisewixer — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:18:01 +0000

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
~saying on God by Eugene O’Neill, The Great God Brown, 1926

Capital punishment: The income tax.
~famous religious quotes by Jeff Hayes

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
~religious by W. Eugene Smith

The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have – and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.
~sayings about religious by Paul Heyne

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal
~quotes about Attitude by Tupac Shakur

Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister.
~famous religious quotes by Alice Walker

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you
~saying on Independence Day by Dick Cheney

You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.
~famous religious quotes by Steven D. Woodhull

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.
~religious by Cathy Ladman

prayer sayings & quotations

denisewixer — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:25:20 +0000

Trying to maintain order during a legalized gang brawl involving 80 toughs with a little whistle, a hanky and a ton of prayer.
~prayer quotes by Anonymousreferee, explaining his job

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
~famous quotes about Adversity by Garth Brooks

I often pray, though I’m not really sure Anyone’s listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He’s literary.
~prayer sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
~prayer sayings by S�ren Kierkegaard

Christmas – that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragranceIt may weave a spell of nostalgiaChristmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance – a day in whi
~inspirational sayings about Christmas quotes by Augusta E. Rundel

Before we can pray, Lord, Thy Kingdom come, we must be willing to pray, My Kingdom go.
~prayer quotes by Alan Redpath

Plenty of perfection quotes

denisewixer — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:24:29 +0000

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
~perfection quotes by Stanley J. Randall

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
~inspirational sayings about Perfection quotes by Stanley J. Randall

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
~perfection quotes by Matthew Arnold

History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.
~famous quotes about History by Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.
~perfection sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.
~perfection quotes by William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1605