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Many are called but few get up.
The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom (1905)
There is no time like the pleasant.
The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom (1905)
Why and Wherefore set out one day,
To hunt for a wild Negation.
They agreed to meet at a cool retreat
On the Point of Interrogation.
The bubble winked at me, and said,
"You'll miss me brother, when you're dead."
Here's to old Adam's crystal ale,
Clear sparkling and divine,
Fair H2O, long may you flow,
We drink your health (in wine).
Children, behold the Chimpanzee;
He sits on the ancestral tree
From which we sprang in ages gone.
I'm glad we sprang: had we held on,
We might, for aught that I can say,
Be horrid Chimpanzees to-day.
The Chimpanzee; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.
Misattributed
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's—she changes it oftener.
Attributed
I don't recall your name, but your manners are familiar.
Attributed Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955)
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Attributed
Actresses will happen in the best-regulated families.
Attributed The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations (1986)
Age, like distance, lends a double charm.
Misattributed
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Attributed Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955)
Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings.
Attributed
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall.
Attributed Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955)
My wife has a whim of iron.
Attributed
Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 70.
Attributed