pictures of quotes and sayings

A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot. ~John Steinbeck



America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. ~Laurence J. Peter



What luck for rulers, that men do not think. ~Adolph Hitler



I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982



Kissing don't last; cookery do! ~George Meredith



What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables, 1822



Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. ~Clifton Fadiman



The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. ~Ronald Reagan



Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years. ~Warren Buffett



Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Cycling is unique. No other sport lets you go like that - where there's only the bike left to hold you up. If you ran as hard, you'd fall over. Your legs wouldn't support you. ~Steve Johnson



I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter. ~Susan M. Watkins



My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin. ~Karl Kraus



It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb



Kittens are angels with whiskers. ~Author Unknown



It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. ~Jacques Barzun, God's Country and Mine, 1954



When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot. ~Larry Lujack



Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship. ~H.M. Tomlinson



A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



The big dispute between the government and Microsoft concerns the Internet "browser," which is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later. As you can imagine, the potential market for this service is huge, so Microsoft would like you to use its browser, and not somebody else's. ~Dave Barry, 1998