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

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