Archive for June, 2008

Henry Ward Beecher Quotes A book is good company

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Famous Quotes Topics: company, full, good, never, war


Henry Miller Quotes All growth is

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
- Henry Miller

Famous Quotes Topics: act, dark, experience, growth


Henry Ford Quotes A bore is a person

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
- Henry Ford

Famous Quotes Topics: mouth, open, person


Helen Keller Quotes All the world

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller

Famous Quotes Topics: full, suffer, world


George Steinbrenner Quotes As I have said

As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey’s and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.
- George Steinbrenner

Famous Quotes Topics: ease, father, hope, love, man, time


George Carlin Quotes At a formal dinner

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
- George Carlin

Famous Quotes Topics: art, bathroom, person, room


George Bernard Shaw Quotes A fool’s brain

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw

Famous Quotes Topics: art, brain, education, fool, philosophy, science, superstition


G.K. Chesterton Quotes A businessman is

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
- G.K. Chesterton

Famous Quotes Topics: business, man, occupation


F. H. Bradley Quotes Another occupation might

Another occupation might have been better.
- F. H. Bradley

Famous Quotes Topics: better, occupation


Erma Bombeck Quotes A friend never defends

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
- Erma Bombeck

Famous Quotes Topics: birthday, day, defend, friend, never