Saturday, April 27, 2013

Jay Leno

"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?"


Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."


Bethania McKenstry

"I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts."


Saki

"Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts."


Friday, April 26, 2013

Doug Larson

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."


Hobart Brown

"Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars."


J. W. Schopf

"For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum."


Arthur C. Clarke

"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."


Thursday, April 25, 2013

Bruce Grocott

"I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves."


J. Frank Dobie

"The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. "


Bertolt Brecht

"Why be a man when you can be a success?"


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."


Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Doris Day

"The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it."


Tom Stoppard

"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."


Douglas Adams

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."


Don Marquis

"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."


Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Evan Esar

"Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing."


Frank Lloyd Wright

"The truth is more important than the facts."


Robert Benchley

"Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people."


Ron Nesen

"Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source."


Monday, April 22, 2013

TEWS: LOL!: 22 Apr 13

Do you know what this text message abbreviation means? Find out with Jennifer and Rob in this week's programme.



Listen : http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/tae/tae_20130422-1200a.mp3


George Orwell

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink."


Robert Redford

"If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes."


Woody Allen

"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me."


Jerome K. Jerome

"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do."


Sunday, April 21, 2013

J. R. R. Tolkien

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."


John H. Patterson

"An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides."


Groucho Marx

"Go, and never darken my towels again."


Yogi Berra

"You can observe a lot just by watching."


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