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Everybody thinks everybody is getting worse, but everybody always has thought that. ~Thomas Benjamin "Tom" Sims, 1923
Today is the longest day of the year — but anymore, every day is. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Diary, 2003
If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1963
There is nothing like really getting to know people to reduce your need for their approval. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
sorry, no autumn this year —
earth didn't pay the subscription fee
after the free trial of summer ended
~Terri Guillemets, "Renewal," 2021
Most people who have an opinion about everything have actually just one opinion that applies to everything. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1963
Absurdity.— Any thing advanced by our opponents, contrary to our own practice, or above our comprehension. ~"Specimens of a Patent Pocket Dictionary, For the use of those who wish to understand the meaning of things as well as words," The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, 1824
He that talks much of happiness summons grief. ~Proverb
Call yourself happy, and you invite the visits of misfortune. ~Publilius Syrus, 1st century BCE, from the Latin by D. Lyman, 1856
Confucius say, man think happy, man about to step on banana skin. ~Jeffrey Ashford (b.1926), Loyal Disloyalty, 1996
Being an adult is 80% misery. ~Lucky Hank, Pilot, 2023, based on the 1997 novel Straight Man by Richard Russo, written for television by Paul Lieberstein, Aaron Zelman, and Jasmine Pierce
I tell you this, and I tell you plain:
What you have done, you will do again;
You will bite your tongue, careful or not,
Upon the already-bitten spot.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1963
What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
To know exactly what you want from life is to become a magnet to everyone who doesn't. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
A person with an hour to kill usually spends it with someone who can't spare a minute. ~Arnold H. Glasow (1905–1999)
There's an old pedagogical rule of thumb saying that once you've identified a problem and given it a sufficiently impressive name, you can safely forget about it. ~Gerald Raftery, "Confer with Sages Here!," in The Wilson Library Bulletin, September 1961
The worst of plagiarists is he who says something which we could have said but didn't. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor
Natural talents in inanimate things —
Pencils — for getting lost.
Umbrellas — for getting stolen.
Money — for taking wings.
Petticoats — for blowing about.
Secrets — for getting known.
Lies — for getting believed.
~Charles Searle, Look Here!, 1885
If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire. ~Cannon's Cogent Comment, in 1,001 Logical Laws, Accurate Axioms, Profound Principles, Trusty Truisms, Homey Homilies, Colorful Corollaries, Quotable Quotes, and Rambunctious Ruminations for all walks of life, compiled by John Peers and edited by Gordon Bennett, 1979
Fortune often spares men a present affliction, that they may suffer a greater. ~Publilius Syrus, 1st century BCE, from the Latin by D. Lyman, 1856
Men have an irresistible impulse to believe that, so long as they see nobody, nobody sees them — like children who shut their eyes so as not to be seen. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799), translated by Norman Alliston, 1908
Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one. ~Elbert Hubbard
The trouble with, "A place for everything and everything in its place" is that there's always more everything than places. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. ~Marie Dubsky, Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916), translated by Mrs Annis Lee Wister, 1882
Fortune is fickle, and speedily asks back her favors. ~Publilius Syrus, 1st century BCE, from the Latin by D. Lyman, 1856
It takes so little to make a stranger's day, and even less to totally ruin it. ~Demetri Martin, demetrimartin.com
You can shout it to every star,
Bare your soul up to the moon,
Cast your problems nightly afar—
But they always flood back by noon.
~Terri Guillemets
It's my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God's plan, I don't have a pencil with me. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Warranty – A notice telling the buyer when the product that was just purchased will no longer function. ~Richard E. Turner (1937–2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. "The Mudge," from "The Curmudgeon's Short Dictionary of Modern Phrases," c.2009
There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Everything I touch
with tenderness, alas
pricks like a bramble
~Issa (1763–1828), translated by Peter Beilenson & Harry Behn, 1962
Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy. ~Proverb
There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
I have never met anyone who wanted to save the world without my financial support. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
When a man STUMPS HIS TOE he cusses everything in creation 1st, then his toe, but never himself. ~Josh Billings, revised by H. Montague
One way to distinguish good from evil is that evil is nearly always quicker to take offense and defend its honor. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Eventually you realize that certain people are never going to notice you, and certain others are going to find you no matter where you hide. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Self-Checkout Line – The place where customers of an establishment become unpaid employees of the establishment. ~Richard E. Turner (1937–2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. "The Mudge," from "The Curmudgeon's Short Dictionary of Modern Phrases," c.2009
There are things you do that come back to haunt you — and things that haunt you without ever leaving. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
When the edifice of our Fortune is but slightly fractured, a chasm opens through the whole. ~Publilius Syrus, 1st century BCE, from the Latin by D. Lyman, 1856
I wish I loved anything as much as cats love walking on keyboards while you’re answering emails. ~Keith Wynn, 2020
The subordinate perceives all the failings of his superior. ~Publilius Syrus, 1st century BCE, from the Latin by D. Lyman, 1856
It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
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