Showing posts with label twain. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 8, 2012


Woman's instructions


THE WOMAN'S COMPACT INSTRUCTION BOOK

Never do housework. No man ever made love to a woman because the house was spotless.

Remember you are known by the idiot you accompany.

Don't imagine you can change a man - unless he's in diapers.

What do you do if your boyfriend walks out? You shut the door.

So many men - so many reasons not to sleep with any of them.

If they can put a man on the moon - they should be able to put them all there.

Tell him you're not his type - you have a pulse.

Never let your man's mind wander - its too little to be left out alone.

Go for younger men. You might as well - they never mature anyway.

Never marry a man for money. You'll have to earn every penny.

Definition of a bachelor: A man who has missed the opportunity to make some woman miserable.

The best way to get a man to do something is to suggest he is too old for it.

If he asks what sort of books you're interested in, tell him check books.

A man's idea of serious commitment is usually, "Oh all right, I'll stay the night".

Women sleep with men who, if they were women, they wouldn't even have bothered to have lunch with.

Remember a sense of humor does not mean that you tell him jokes, it means you laugh at his.

If he asks you if you if you're faking it tell him no, you're just practicing.

When he asks you if he's your first tell him, "You may be, you look familiar."


NEW Ideas About Science


The beguiling ideas about science quoted here were gleaned from essays, exams, and classroom discussions. Most were from 5th and 6th graders. They illustrate Mark Twain's contention that the 'most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Q: What is one horsepower?
A: One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.

You can listen to thunder after lightning and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don't hear it, you got hit, so never mind.

Talc is found on rocks and on babies.

The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down.

When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.

When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting.

Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.

While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun, it is really only centrificating. [this guy is going to do well in college! *haha* ...Lj]

Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction.

South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still manage.

Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime.

Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. There are 180 degrees between freezing and boiling because there are 180 degrees between north and south.

A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go.

There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered. Finding them all means living forever.

There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the center of the Earth because of so much population stomping around up there these days.

Lime is a green-tasting rock.

Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil.

Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't why you should.

Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they're there.

Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it's brother against brother.

Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers.

We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on.

To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up.

In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H's as O's.

Clouds are high flying fogs.

I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing.

Clouds just keep circling the earth around and around. And around. There is not much else to do.

Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does.

Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water.

We keep track of the humidity in the air so we won't drown when we breathe.

Rain is often known as soft water, oppositely known as hail.

Rain is saved up in cloud banks.

In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes.

Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dogs tongue will kill the strongest man.

A blizzard is when it snows sideways.

A hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size.

A monsoon is a French gentleman.

Thunder is a rich source of loudness.

Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound.

It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places.

The wind is like the air, only pushier.

Thursday, April 12, 2012


VERY INTERESTING QUOTES

·        Men are like steel; both are worthless when they loose their temper.
-- Source Unknown

·        What if "the hokey pokey" is REALLY what it's all about?
-- Curtis Spencer

·        We are the people our parents warned us about.
-- Jimmy Buffett


·        Those are my principles, and if you don't 
like them...well, I have others.
-- Groucho Marx


·        The nice part of living in a small town is that when I don't know what I'm doing, someone else does.
-- Source Unknown

·        USA Today has come out with a new survey-apparently, three out of every four people make up 75 percent of the population.
-- Dave Letterman

·        You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.
-- Dennis Miller

·        Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-- Albert Einstein

·        Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?
-- Mark Twain

·        A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
-- G. C. Lichtenberg

·        I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain

·        Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
-- Groucho Marx

·        I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
-- Charles Shulz

·        Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
-- Ambrose Bierce

·        I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
-- Oscar Wilde

·        Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.
-- Benjamin Disraeli


·        I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Mahatma Gandhi


·        Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.
-- Claudette Colbert

·        If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
-- Flip
Wilson

·        I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.
-- Mark Twain

·        A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. What do you mean? responded her mother. Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.
-- Source Unknown

·        If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.
-- Groucho Marx

·        The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.
-- Mark Twain

·        He has not a single redeeming defect.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

·        When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
-- John Mortimer

·        Last night the creative juices were flowing but today I am merely a vast wasteland of random thoughts.
-- Peckeroy

·        From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx

·        In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.
-- Len Deighton





·        My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
-- Cole Porter





·        He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Source Unknown

Friday, March 30, 2012

WHAT A FRIENDS ARE FOR (PART 2)

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance
-- Dale Carnegie

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
-- Ed Cunningham

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.
-- Lois L. Kaufman

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
-- Francois Mauriac

A friend is someone who, upon seeing another friend in immense pain, Would rather be the one experiencing the pain, Than to have to watch their friend suffer.
-- Amanda Gier

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
-- Chinese Proverb

A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing.
-- Spanish Proverb

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -- the truly democratic thing about it -- is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
-- Joseph Addison

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
-- Lewis Mumford

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
-- John Leonard

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.
-- Mark Twain

Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
-- Rudyard Kipling

A friend is a present you give to yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
-- Sting

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.
-- Arch Ward

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
-- John Donne

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
-- Mark Twain

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
-- Francesco Guicciardini

From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.
-- Hilaire Belloc

So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.
-- Epictetus

To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
-- Aristotle

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
-- Henri Nouwen

In my friend, I find a second self.
-- Isabel Norton

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
-- Edward M. Forster

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
-- Leon Uris

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
-- Ambrose Bierce

Friends Are Treasures
-- Horace Bruns

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
-- Source Unknown

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
-- Dame Edna Everage

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
-- Johann Von Goethe

Wednesday, March 28, 2012


LIFE LESSONS
We are the people our parents warned us about.
-- Jimmy Buffett
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well, I have others.
-- Groucho Marx
The nice part of living in a small town is that when I don't know what I'm doing, someone else does.
-- Source Unknown
USA Today has come out with a new survey-apparently, three out of every four people make up 75 percent of the population.
-- Dave Letterman
You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.
-- Dennis Miller
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-- Albert Einstein
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?
-- Mark Twain
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
-- G. C. Lichtenberg
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain
Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
-- Groucho Marx
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
-- Charles Shulz
Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
-- Ambrose Bierce
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
-- Oscar Wilde
Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.
-- Claudette Colbert
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
-- Flip
Wilson
I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.
-- Mark Twain
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. What do you mean? responded her mother. Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.
-- Source Unknown
If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.
-- Groucho Marx
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.
-- Mark Twain
He has not a single redeeming defect.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Wisdom in Phrases

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin..'
- Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)
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I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: - 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.'
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement..
- Mark Twain
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible
- George Burns
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Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.
- Victor Borge
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
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My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
- Jimmy Durante
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I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.
- Alex Levine
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My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
- Rodney Dangerfield
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Money can't buy you happiness .... But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
- Spike Milligan
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Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP .
- Joe Namath
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I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.
- Bob Hope
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I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it..
- W. C. Fields
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We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.
- Will Rogers
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Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As
you grow older, it will avoid you.
- Winston Churchill
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Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty .. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out..
- Phyllis Diller
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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.
- Billy Crystal
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And the cardiologist's diet: - If it tastes good, spit it out.



May your troubles be less, may your blessings be more, and
may nothing but happiness come through your door.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Funny Quotes and Sayings ( 2st part )

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.- Benjamin Franklin
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.- George Carlin
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.- Mel Brooks
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend! - Spaceballs (1987)
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.- Mark Twain
Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.- Tom Lehrer
 



 Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.- Will Rogers
 



Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schultz' Peanuts cartoon
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.- Oscar Wilde
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.- Jane Austen
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.- Oscar Wilde
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.- Ogden Nash
Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.- Yasser Arafat
Clear? Huh. Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me afour-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.- Duck Soup (1933)
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.- Mark Twain
 



Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. - H. L. Mencken
 




Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.- Peter Ustinov
Crazy is walking down the street with half a cantaloupe on your head, muttering; "I'm a hamster, I'm a hamster."- Spy Hard (1996)
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.- Isaac Asimov
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it. You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- Zorba the Greek (1964)
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.- Oscar Wilde
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.- Will Rogers
Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for.- Mae West
Do not speak to me of rules. This is war! This is not a game of cricket!- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.- Chinese Proverb
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.- Mark Twain
 



Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?- Oscar Hammerstein II (Cinderella)
 



Don't expect me to get excited over another damn thing we need to find.- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
DON'T get officious. You're not yourself when you're officious - That is the curse of agovernment job. - Harold and Maude (1971)
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. - Mark Twain
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.- Mark Twain
Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.- Mae West
Don't threaten me with a dead fish.- Withnail & I (1987)
Don't underestimate your abilities, that's your boss's job.- Anonymous
Don't worry about that chair with a hole in the middle. It's merely waiting to be reupholstered. - Casino Royale (1966)
Donkey, you HAVE the right to remain silent. What you lack, is the capacity.- Shrek 2 (2004)