Quick Truth Quote
“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple” – Oscar Wilde
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Quotes about Women
– “Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.” – Bill Maher
– “A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.” – Carrie Snow
– “You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.” – Cindy Crawford
– “Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.” – Laurence J. Peter
– “The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.” – Unknown
– “A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.” – Arnold Haultain
– “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” – Charlotte Whitton
– “Women are always beautiful.” – Ville Valo
– “The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy.” – Ellery Queen
– “Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.” – Mae West
– “Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.” – Nicole Hollander
– “Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.” – Unknown
– “Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.” – Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly
– “A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.” – Chauncey Mitchell Depew
– “The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself.” – Elizabeth Metcalf
– “There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.” – Madeleine K. Albright
– “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” – Oscar Wilde
– “There’s something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that.” – Harold Robbins
– “When a man talks dirty to a woman, it’s sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it’s $3.95 a minute.” – Unknown
– “Men get laid, but women get screwed.” – Quentin Crisp
– “The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.” – Germaine Greer
– “Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.” – Ovid
– “Howiver, I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish: God Almighty made ’em to match the men.” – George Eliot, “The Harvest Supper”, Adam Bede
– “Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn’t want to own one.” – W.C. Fields
– “Women really do rule the world. They just haven’t figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we’re all in big big trouble.” – Doctor Leon
Risk Quotes
– “If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything.” – Win Borden
– “He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.” – Oscar Wilde
– “Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.” – Frederick Smith
– “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
– “Live every moment in the present. Do it. Risk it. Buy it if you love it. Loving well takes practice, delicious practice. If it feels good, it must be good.” – Gael Greene
– “If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.” – Annie Dillard
– “Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.” – Herodotus
Best Quotes about music
– “If music be the food of love, play on; /Give me excess of it that, surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken and so die.” – Shakespeare
– “There is only one better thing than music – live music.” – Jacek Bukowski
– “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” – Aldous Huxley
– “Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.” – George Bernard Shaw
– “I hate music, especially when it’s played.” – Jimmy Durante
– “I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.” – George Eliot
– “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” – Victor Hugo
– “Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.” – Martin Luther
– “Music is what I love and it’s what I feel and it’s in me and to know that I can do something that I enjoy and hopefully bring some enjoyment to other people through is an incredible felling and I am just really thankful for it.” – Mariah Carey
– “Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.” – Oscar Wilde
– “There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” – George Eliot
– “The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, «Is there a meaning to music?» My answer would be, «Yes.» And «Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?» My answer to that would be, «No.»” – Aaron Copland
Best Happy Quotes
– “By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.” – Samuel Johnson
– “Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. ” – Voltaire
– “If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy
– “When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.” – Oscar Wilde
– “Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.” – Benjamin Franklin
– “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
– “Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.” – Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens
– “A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.” – Mother Teresa
– “Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Francesca Reigler
– “Our happiness is greatest when we contribute most to the happiness of others.” – Harriet Shepard
– “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius
– “Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.” – G. K. Chesterton
– “There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.” – Mother Teresa
– “I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!” – William Blake
50 funny quotes
1. “Borrow money from a pessimist – they don’t expect it back” – Unknown
2. “Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.” – Unknown
3. “Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.” – Unknown
4. “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” – Oscar Wilde
5. “Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They’re about to announce the lottery numbers.” – Homer Simpson
6. “I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.” – Whitney Brown
7. “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” – Albert Einstein
8. “Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them is making a poop, the other one is carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge.” – Jerry Seinfeld
9. “Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like «Psychic Wins Lottery» ?” – Jay Leno
10. “One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.” – George W. Bush
11. “Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.” – Al Bundy
12. “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” – Albert Einstein
13. “My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates
14. “Gas is getting so expensive I’m gonna ride a mexican to work.” – Chris Rock
15. “Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little
bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.” – Jerry Seinfeld
16. “Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.” – John Peers
17. “I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.” – Steve Martin
18. “Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
19. “Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.” – Bill Cosbey
20. “If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.” – George Carlin
21. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
22. “Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” – Mark Twain
23. “If you love your job, you haven’t worked a day in your life.” – Tommy Lasorda
24. “A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths.” – Steven Wright
25. “You tried, and you failed, so the lesson is, never try.” – Homer J. Simpson
26. “Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.” – Voltaire
27. “When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.” – Burt Reynolds
28. “Absence — that common cure of love.” – Miguel De Cervantes
29. “Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.” – Wendell Johnson
30. “It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.” – Weinberg
31. “As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.” – Socrates
32. “A husband is what’s left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.” – Helen Rowland
33. “Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.” – Cordel Hull
34. “I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” – Winston Churchill
35. “There are three faithful friends — an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.” – Benjamin Franklin
36. “The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate.” – Franklin P. Jones
37. “All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should
have been more specific.” – Jane Wagner
38. “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not «Eureka!» (I found it!) but «That’s funny …» ” – Isaac Asimov
39. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wilde
40. “Doing nothing is very hard to do … you never know when you’re finished.” – Leslie Nielsen
41. “The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.” – Robert Frost
42. “The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
43. “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.” – Agatha Christie
44. “I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.” – Groucho Marx
45. “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West
46. “Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” – Benjamin Franklin
47. “Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire.” – George Bernard Shaw
48. “Don’t knock masturbation. It’s sex with someone I love.” – Woody Allen
49. “All women are good – good for nothing, or good for something.” – Miguel De Cervantes
50. “Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.” – Will Rogers