THE SUPERLIST of FUN LINES and FAMOUS QUOTATIONS 10Th
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This file contains 4899 lines from my private collection beginning with the letter “I”. More to follow in due time. Enjoy! THE SUPERLIST OF FUN LINES AND FAMOUS QUOTATIONS 10th. revised edition Compiled by Christer Sundqvist 1987-2005 Christer Sundqvist Neptunuksenkatu 3 FIN-21600 PARAINEN FINLAND TEL: int +358-40-7529274 e-Mail: [email protected] If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. Martin Luther King, Jr. Some fun lines and famous quotations I-35 is the best thing to come out of Iowa? I accept reality and dare not question it. Walt Whitman I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. Voltaire (1694-1778) I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) I ain't got time to bleed. Jesse Ventura I also believe that a ruler will be successful who adapts his mode of procedure to the quality of the times, and likewise that he will be unsuccessful if the times are out of accord with his procedure. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher (1925 - ) I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers. Harry S Truman (1884-1972) I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music. Aretha Franklin I always find there is most hazard in sailing upon smooth water. John Wesley I always get the better when I argue alone. Oliver Goldsmith I always knew I'd look back at the tears and laugh, but I never thought that I'd look back at the laughs and cry. I always knew I would look back on my tears and laugh but I never knew I would look back at my laughter and cry. I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble. Rudyard Kipling I always ran through fear of being beaten. It brought out the best in me, being terrified of being beaten. Shirley Strickland I always remember an epitaph, which is in the cemetery at Toombstone, Arizona. It says: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest." I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have. Harry S Truman (1884-1972) I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job. Oliver Wendell Holmes I always say, keep a diary and some day it'll keep you. Mae West I always think of the old woman who told me when I was in my twenties, "When you get old like me, don't be sittin' on your front porch rockin' and regrettin' the things you never did." I always think twice before I say something stupid. Loesje I always thought looking back on the times I cried would make me laugh; but I never knew looking back on the times I laughed would make me cry. I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. Diane Arbus I always try to go the extra mile at work, but my boss always finds me and brings me back. I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners. David Ogilvy I always use the newest medicines quickly before their effectiveness runs out. Sir William Osler I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. Gilbert & Sullivan I always wanted to be a procrastinator; I never got around to it. I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. Lily Tomlin I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated. Nancy Reagan I am a citizen of the world. Diogenes Laertius (Circa 200 A. D.) I am a creationist; I refuse to believe that I could have evolved from humans. I am a firm believer in getting married in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out you haven't wasted a whole day. Mickey Rooney I am a friend of the workingman, I would rather be his friend than be one. Clarence Darrow I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have. Coleman Cox I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep people from vice. Samuel Johnson I am a Hollywood writer, so I put on a sports jacket and take off my brain. I am a jelly doughnut. John F. Kennedy I am a Libra. Libras don't believe in astrology. Al Hibbs I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me. Terence (185-159 B. C.) I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me. Terence I am a man more sinned against than sinning. William Shakespeare I am a man - nothing human is alien to me. Terrence I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. Zsa Zsa Gabor I am a nutritional overachiever I am a part of all that I have met. Alfred Lord Tennyson I am a part of all that I have seen. Alfred Lord Tennyson I am a sociologist, God help me. John O'Neill I am a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm. William Shakespeare I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the moneybags of Carnegie? Albert Einstein (1879-1955) I am afraid humility to genius is as an extinguisher to a candle. William Shenstone I am afraid [if the present trend in Vietnam continues] that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable. U Thant I am almost freighted out of my seven senses. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. New Testament I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. Samuel Johnson I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. Clarence Darrow I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality. John Randolph I am an atheist, thank God! I am an escapee of a political correction facility. I am anti the (lingual) categories of plus male and minus male. But if those categories are abolished and males are no longer presented as superior, I will accept them as my equals. That, however, will not be within a patriarchal order. Dale Spender I am at two with nature. Woody Allen I am become Death, the Destroyer of worlds. Oppenheimer I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Anne Sullivan (1866-1936) I am but mad north-north-west; when the wind is southerly, / I know a hawk from a handsaw. William Shakespeare I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit. John Fitzgerald Kennedy I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials, which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph. Cordell Hull I am certain that I am a thinking thing; but do I not therefore likewise know what is required to render me certain of a truth? Rene Descartes (1596-1650) I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect... geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics. Carl Friedrich Gauss I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. Thomas Campbell Clark I am convinced that He does not play dice. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 99% how I react to it.