funny quotes from hangover

Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911



Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government. ~Pierre Joseph Proudhon, quoted in The Match!



Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. ~Elbert Hubbard



Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. ~Elizabeth Bowen



Skiing is the only sport where you spend an arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg. ~Author Unknown



Ford's success has startled the country, almost the world, financially, industrially, mechanically. It exhibits in higher degree than most persons would have thought possible the seemingly contradictory requirements of true efficiency, which are: constant increase of quality, great increase of pay to the workers, repeated reduction in cost to the consumer. And with these appears, as at once cause and effect, an absolutely incredible enlargement of output reaching something like one hundredfold in less than ten years, and an enormous profit to the manufacturer. ~Charles Buxton Going



Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. ~Bronson Alcott



Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity? ~Steve Polyak



A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. ~Beryl Markham



Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem. ~Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh



True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~Erich Segal



If you ride you know those moments when you have fed yourself into the traffic, felt the hashed-up asphalt rattle in the handlebars, held a lungful of air in a cloud of exhaust. Up ahead there are two parallel buses. With cat's whiskers, you measure the clearance down a doubtful alley. You swing wide, outflank that flower truck. The cross-street yellow light is turning red. You burst off the green like a surfer on a wave of metal. You have a hundred empty yards of Broadway to yourself. ~Chip Brown, "A Bike and a Prayer"



Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. ~Zen Proverb



A faith like Lincoln's would transform the world! ~James Oppenheim



Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet



Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. ~Ecclesiastes 9:10



There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. ~Author Unknown



Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ~Erica Jong



I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly or a bird of paradise or a deer. So a man of such a faith, looking at animals, might be looking at old friends or ancestors. In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe. ~William O. Douglas, Go East, Young Man, 1974



Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. ~Marcel Proust