Elvendragon's favorites, chosen by Elvendragon

  1. A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.
        Unknown   Best?
  2. What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
        Unknown   Best?
  3. Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
        Unknown   Best?
  4. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  5. He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch.
        Unknown   Best?
  6. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
        Galileo Galilei   Best?
  7. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  8. I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  9. It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  10. I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
        Solomon Short   Best?
  11. Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
        Bill Watterson   Best?
  12. Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
        Isaac Asimov   Best?
  13. Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
        William Congreve   Best?
  14. Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.
        Anne Morrow Lindbergh   Best?
  15. Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
        Norman Podhoretz   Best?
  16. Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
        Alexander Pope   Best?
  17. Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
        Epicurus   Best?
  18. Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes   Best?
  19. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
        Plato   Best?
  20. So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  21. If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
        Louise Brown   Best?
  22. Common sense is not so common.
        Voltaire   Best?
  23. It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
        Unknown   Best?
  24. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
        Vince Lombardi   Best?
  25. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
        Bible   Best?
  26. Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  27. All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  28. The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
        Lord Byron   Best?
  29. The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  30. There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
        Johann K. Lavater   Best?
  31. A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
        Washington Irving   Best?
  32. I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
        Marilyn Monroe   Best?
  33. Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  34. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  35. Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
        W. C. Fields   Best?
  36. The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  37. Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
        E.B. White   Best?
  38. The mere sense of living is joy enough.
        Emily Dickinson   Best?
  39. If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
        William James   Best?
  40. Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.
        Homer   Best?
  41. Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
        Aesop   Best?
  42. No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
        Saint Jerome   Best?
  43. The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  44. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  45. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
        Vaclev Havel   Best?
  46. My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  47. The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
        Horace Walpole   Best?
  48. A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
        Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   Best?
  49. Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
        Martha Graham   Best?
  50. Humor is just another defense against the universe.
        Mel Brooks   Best?
  51. A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
        Dwight D. Eisenhower   Best?
  52. My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a- bitch.
        Jack Nicholson   Best?
  53. Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  54. The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.
        Plato   Best?
  55. Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  56. Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
        Henry Beston   Best?
  57. Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
        Seneca   Best?
  58. The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
        Steven King   Best?
  59. The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  60. We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
        François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
  61. Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
        Clive Jones   Best?
  62. Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  63. In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  64. I have plentyof common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
        Bill Watterson   Best?
  65. A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too.
        Jake Johanson   Best?
  66. Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  67. I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.
        Shakti Gawain   Best?
  68. The body says what words cannot.
        Martha Graham   Best?
  69. [Y]ou sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  70. I don't like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.
        George Carlin   Best?
  71. Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
        Elmer G. Letterman   Best?
  72. The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
        Robertson Davies   Best?
  73. The best holistic remedy for high blood pressure is a purring cat on your lap.
        Kathrine Palmer Peterson   Best?
  74. The best things in life don't make sense.
        Alice Cooper   Best?
  75. A room without books is like a body without a soul.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  76. Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
        Peter Ustinov   Best?
  77. When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show.
        George Carlin   Best?
  78. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
        Vince Lombardi   Best?
  79. Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.
        Oswald Chambers   Best?
  80. Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  81. There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  82. Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you.
        Mary Ross   Best?
  83. I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
        Elizabeth Taylor   Best?
  84. It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  85. It's not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the doer of deeds might have done them better. Instead, the credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by sweat and blood and tears.
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
  86. Alea Iacta est... (the dice is cast)
        Julius Ceasar   Best?
  87. A child's tear rends the heavens.
        Yiddish proverb   Best?
  88. A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
        Dr. Smiley Blanton   Best?
  89. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
        Clive James   Best?
  90. Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.
        Venezuelan Proverb   Best?
  91. Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  92. The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.
        Margo Kaufman   Best?
  93. The way I see it, God put me on Earth to achieve a certain number of things. By now I'm so far behind, I'll never die.
        Calvin   Best?
  94. The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is looking.
        Annson Dorrance   Best?
  95. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything.
        Joseph Stalin   Best?
  96. I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  97. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
        Michael Crichton   Best?
  98. As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
        H. Rider Haggard   Best?
  99. From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
        Edvard Munch   Best?
  100. There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
        Salvador Dali   Best?
  101. We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.
        John Tierney   Best?
  102. Anyone who is different today faces harassment, whether it is in the way he dresses, or in the position he takes on important issues. And when the price of being different is a cold fear, with good reason, then freedom as we peddle it in our international publicity releases is gone. If and when it disappears, it won't be stolen by big government, the tax collector, or the Supreme Court. Fascism will be the people's choice. It usually is. We've managed to avoid it so far only because nobody nutty enough to give the people what they want has come along. Yet.
        Mike Royko   Best?
  103. Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.
        Charlie Parker   Best?
  104. You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  105. I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
        Tom Hanks   Best?
  106. Just now when I said I have a crush on you you didn't say no way loser. I'd rather have a lobotomy by a leper. That means something.
        Robin Williams   Best?
  107. Sometimes you've got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun.
        Robin Williams   Best?
  108. The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
        Betty Grable   Best?
  109. Help you I can, yes.
        Yoda   Best?
  110. Lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing.
        Yoda   Best?
  111. Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need parental supervision.
        Dick Armey   Best?
  112. All right, class. I'm your substitute today. It's Friday and the last period, and I know you are all eager to get out of here, so I'll let you talk. All I ask, is that you do the right thing: Make me look good.
        Some teacher   Best?
  113. If something is invisible, the eye can see it... Unless, of course, it is invisible.
        Ray Soleanna   Best?
  114. I'm not really a poet... I'm more of a person who puts words together in such a way that people applaud them because they can.
        Sharcu   Best?
  115. We put the 'fun' back in 'dysfunctional'
        Billie Joe Armstrong   Best?
  116. Nonsense is the most important of all the five senses.
        Udit   Best?
  117. Pirates and ninjas should be happy hurray.
        Pacos Tacos   Best?
  118. Hey! Whatever part of my mind said that, please cut it out.
        Neal Visher   Best?
  119. One day dogs are going to rule
        Tre Cool   Best?
  120. You say it to my face, you might be pickin' yourself off the ground
        Billie Joe Armstrong   Best?
  121. Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I am a God.
        Billie Joe Armstrong   Best?
  122. I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
        Billie Joe Armstrong   Best?
  123. It's my fucking life and - you know what? - nobody invited you... so there's the door.
        Billie Joe Armstrong   Best?
  124. Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
        Billie Joe Armstrong   Best?
  125. Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem.
        Billie Joe Armstrong   Best?
  126. When some people talk to me, I can hardly wait for them to shut up. Like shut up, your a moron, I have nothing to say to you.
        Billie Joe Armstrong   Best?
  127. Green Day is like sex. When we good we're really good! When we're bad... we're still pretty damn good!
        Mike Dirnt   Best?
  128. We personally believe that dogs are going to take over the world. And when they do, they're gonna hit everyone with shit.
        Mike Dirnt   Best?
  129. It's not obsession. It's passion
        Chantelle   Best?
  130. Everything in life is either Illiegeal, Immortal, or Fattening
        Anonymous   Best?
  131. Darling, I am not a white knight.
        Luke Spencer\Tony Geary   Best?
  132. They don't keep people like us in hell, dear, we'd end up running the place.
        Helena Cassedine\ Constance Towers   Best?
  133. he who laughs last thinks slowest
        Theophilus   Best?
  134. When life gives you lemons, eat ‘em; it’s probably high time you pulled a few funny faces and had a good laugh.
        DancingRed   Best?

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