(17397 quotes found)
“How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!”
William Shakespeare
“The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time, because there is”
Charles F. Kettering
“Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.”
Walt Disney
“I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the following things: be an alcoholic; be a drug offender; beat their wife or husband; or gamble. I hope they would gamble.”
Pete Rose
“The years teach much which the days never know”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“From my thirteenth year on, it was clear to me that I wanted to be a poet or nothing at all.”
Hermann Hesse
“Bloody men are like bloody buses -- you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.”
Wendy Cope
“Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.”
Erma Bombeck
