quotes about family funny

You can get all A's and still flunk life. ~Walker Percy



Truth is no Doctoresse, she takes no degrees at Paris or Oxford... but oftentimes to such an one as myself, an Idiota or common person, no great things, melancholizing in woods where waters are, quiet places by rivers, fountains, whereas the silly man expecting no such matter, thinketh only how best to delectate and refresh his mynde continually with Natura her pleasaunt scenes, woods, water-falls, or Art her statelie gardens, parks, terraces, Belvideres, on a sudden the goddesse herself Truth has appeared, with a shyning lyghte, and a sparklyng countenance, so as yee may not be able lightly to resist her. ~Charles Lamb



Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. ~Charles Caleb Colton



Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. ~Channing E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970



A pun is a short quip followed by a long groan. ~Author Unknown



Count ballots, not judges. ~Author Unknown



Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. ~H.L. Mencken



If you're enough lucky to be Irish, you're lucky enough! ~Irish Saying



Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ~Franklin P. Jones



Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be. ~Dennis Gunton



A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. ~Victor Hugo



A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad. ~John Andrew Holmes



To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. ~W.E.B. DuBois



Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. ~Lord Chesterfield



The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems. ~G.W. Allport, Becoming, 1955



Microsoft, where quality is job 1.1. ~Author Unknown



Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. ~Ambrose Bierce



One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff. ~Shirley Ann Grau



One does what one is; one becomes what one does. ~Robert von Musil, Kleine Prosa



Most games are lost, not won. ~Casey Stengel

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