Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.

Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses and Mister are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Patience, n. -- A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

A pessimist asked God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God. "No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them." "The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something - the mortality of the optimist.

Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.