James Thurber Quotes

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
~James Thurber Quotes




The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
~James Thurber Quotes


You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
~James Thurber Quotes

I hate women because they always know where things are.
~James Thurber Quotes



He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
James Thurber Quotes

Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
~Laurence J. Peter Quotes


Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
~Laurence J. Peter Quotes


The only problems money can solve are money problems.
~Laurence J. Peter Quotes


The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
~Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
~Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Sophocles Quotes

Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
~Sophocles Quotes


The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
~Sophocles Quotes


He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
~Sophocles Quotes


There is no success without hardship.
~Sophocles Quotes


Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
~Sophocles Quotes




Silence is an ornament for women.
~Sophocles Quotes

Publilius Syrus Quotes

An evil gain equals a loss.
~Publilius Syrus Quotes

To-day is the pupil of yesterday.
~Publilius Syrus Quotes


Never promise more than you can perform.
~Publilius Syrus Quotes



It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
~Publilius Syrus Quotes


The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.
~Publilius Syrus Quotes

Terence Quotes

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
~Terence Quotes


Too much liberty corrupts us all.
~Terence Quotes


There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
~Terence Quotes

So many men, so many opinions.
~Terence Quotes


My closest relation is myself.
~Terence Quotes


Fortune helps the brave.
~Terence Quotes

Plato Quotes

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
~Plato Quotes


Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
~Plato Quotes


Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
~Plato Quotes

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
~Plato Quotes

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
~Plato Quotes

Love is a serious mental disease.
~Plato Quotes

J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Courage is found in unlikely places.
~J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
~J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes


The wise speak only of what they know.
~J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes


Handsome is as handsome does.
~J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
~J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes