dumber and dumber quotes

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ~Horace Mann



Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~Henry James



We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. ~Warren Buffett



I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others? ~Maurice Maeterlinck



Scars are tattoos with better stories. ~From a Toyota advertisement in Sports Illustrated magazine, 3 June 2002



It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick



Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal. ~Voltaire



Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. ~Lord Chesterfield



You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



I'm a material girl - want to see my fabric collection? ~Author Unknown



Make your feet your friend. ~J.M. Barrie



You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket



You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997



The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. ~Erma Bombeck



Dreams are nature's answering service - don't forget to pick up your messages once in a while. ~Sarah Crestinn



History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies. ~Frederick Maurice Powicke, Three Lectures



A woman is a person who reaches for a chair when she answers the telephone. ~Milton Wright



The road was new to me, as roads always are going back. ~Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country Road of Pointed Firs, 1896



Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old. ~Mary H. Waldrip