-
A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.
-
A bird in the hand is
generally dead.
-
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
-
A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
-
A fool and his money are soon elected.
-
A friend in need is a pest indeed.
-
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
-
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
-
A kind word and gun gets you more than a kind word alone.
-
A king's castle is his home.
-
A little greed can get you lots of stuff.
-
A man who smiles when things go wrong knows who to blame.
-
A man's house is his hassle.
-
A motion to adjourn is always in order.
-
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
-
A seminar on Time Travel will be held two weeks ago.
-
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
-
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
-
Actions speak louder than words.
-
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
-
Affirmative Action is mediocrity's answer to Darwin.
-
After all is said and done, usually more is said.
-
After things go from bad to worse the cycle repeats.
-
All general statements are false.
-
All men are created unequal.
-
All Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
-
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
-
All that glitters is not gold.
-
All the money in the world can't buy you a smidgen of ignorance.
-
All the world's a stage... most of us are just stagehands.
-
All things being equal, you lose.
-
All work and no play, will make you a manager.
-
An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.
-
Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough.
-
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
-
Anything worth doing, is worth getting someone else to do.
-
Apes evolved from creationists.
-
At the feast of ego, everyone leaves hungry.
-
Blessed are the censors, for they shall inhibit the earth.
-
Blessed are the meek, for they make great scapegoats.
-
Blessed are the pessimists, for they have made backups.
-
Blessed is the end-user who expects nothing, for ye shall not be
disappointed.
-
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
-
Chess players mate better.
-
Chicken little only has to be right once.
-
Committees do harm merely by existing.
-
Complex problems have simple, easy-to-understand wrong answers.
-
Corrugated iron is really groovy.
-
Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.
-
Curiosity killed the cat. What the heck they got 9 lives.
-
Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.
-
Desserts spelled backwards becomes stressed.
-
Eagles fly; but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines.
-
Eagles may soar, but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines.
-
Elevators smell different to midgets.
-
Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
-
Every man has a price.
-
Every silver lining has a cloud.
-
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
-
Everybody lies; but it doesn't matter much since nobody listens.
-
Everything changes except change.
-
Everything in time is birth to some and death to others.
-
Everything inspires. But one things more than others.
-
Everything is possible; just not too probable.
-
Everything is unimportant in some way.
-
Everything put together sooner or later falls apart.
-
Everything takes longer than you think.
-
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
-
Expensive silk ties attract spaghetti sauce.
-
Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.
-
Faith will move mountains.
-
Familiarity breeds contempt.
-
Floggings will continue until morale improves.
-
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
-
For every idiot-proof system, a new improved idiot will arise to overcome
it.
-
For every problem there is a simple solution, and it's always wrong.
-
For him to get an idea, it would be a surgical process.
-
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
-
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-
Generalizations (as a rule) are bad.
-
Geochronologists will date any old thing.
-
George Washington's brother was the uncle of our country.
-
Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car
keys to teenage boys.
-
God spelled backwards becomes Dog.
-
Golf scores are directly proportional to the number of witnesses.
-
Good fences make good neighbors.
-
Good generally conquers evil. Unless, of course, good is stupid.
-
Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere.
-
Gravity always wins.
-
Gravity doesn't exist. Earth sucks.
-
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional!!
-
Half a loaf is better than none.
-
Half of the people in the world are below average.
-
Happiness can't buy money.
-
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
-
Hard work will never break up with you.
-
Have an affair. It will break up the monogamy.
-
Having a good time can be deadly.
-
Having a Smoking Section in a restaurant is a little like having a Peeing
Section in a pool!
-
He who dies with the most of anything, is still dead.
-
He who hesitates is last.
-
He who hesitates too long, must change his underwear.
-
He who laughs last probably doesn't understand the joke.
-
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-
He who laughs last usually gets a shot in the face.
-
He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword.
-
He who throws mud loses ground.
-
Heisenberg may have been right.
-
Heisenberg Might Have Slept Here.
-
Heisenburg probably rules.
-
High explosives are applicable where truth and logic fail.
-
History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
-
History doesn't repeat itself. Historians do.
-
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
-
Hungarian food is OK if you like dog
tartare.
-
If a problem has a single neck, it has a simple solution.
-
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an
infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even
considering if there are men on base.
-
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
-
If it appeals to everyone, evangelists will target it.
-
If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.
-
If it's not nailed down, it's fair game.
-
If love is blind, lingerie makes great Braille.
-
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
-
If people ate what they killed, there would be no more wars.
-
If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world
peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it would be until the looting
started.
-
If we don't know it already, chances are we're not interested in learning
it.
-
If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget you book.
-
If you can survive death, you can probably survive anything.
-
Ill-bred children are always displaying their pest manners.
-
In 20 years there will be radio stations playing classic rap.
-
In life's rat race, it's not how fast you can run but how good you deal
with the cats that matters.
-
In life's wallet, there's no compartment for change.
-
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
-
In theory, everything works.
-
In today's world, anyone who is not confused just isn't thinking straight.
-
Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.
-
Inside every short man is a tall man doubled over in pain.
-
It is better to copulate than never.
-
It looks like blind screaming hedonism won out.
-
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning
to others.
-
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
-
It's amazing how mature wisdom resembles being too tired.
-
It's an ill wind that blows no good.
-
It's bad luck to be superstitious.
-
It's better to have a horrible ending than to have horrors without end.
-
It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.
-
It's not just reality that matters.
-
It's not over till it's over.
-
It's not what you say in your argument, it's how loud you say it.
-
It's not when you get up, but when you get down.
-
It's okay to laugh in the bedroom, but don't point.
-
It's only a game until you lose.
-
It's only a hobby... only a hobby... only a
-
It's only fun if you can get in trouble.
-
It's only hopeless if you walk away.
-
It's the empty can that makes the most noise.
-
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
-
It's who we don't say no to that defines who we are.
-
Its hard to get a "head" in the world...
-
Just because the past runs you doesn't mean you can run from the future.
-
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and the world laughs louder.
-
Laugh and the world thinks you're an idiot.
-
Laugh at your problems, everyone else does.
-
Let he who has no stones cast the first sin.
-
Life has a lot of undocumented features.
-
Life is a bowl of spaghetti O's. They're all zeros, you just have to eat
them up.
-
Life is cheap. It's the accessories that kill you.
-
Life is complex. It has real and imaginary parts.
-
Life is full of little surprises.
-
Life is just one of those things.
-
Life is like a package from the Unabomber... you never know what you're
gonna get
-
Life is like being thrown into a bed of roses. You get to smell the roses
and feel the thorns.
-
Life is like... an analogy.
-
Life is recursive.
-
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
-
Life is too short to drink cheap beer.
-
Life isn't weird; it's the people in it.
-
Life's a beach, and then you drown.
-
Life's a trip and then you run out of Travelers' Checks.
-
Life's biggest question is whether or not you're happy - not with others,
but with yourself.
-
Life's like raisin bran. Few raisins and lots of bran.
-
Love is blind; marriage is the eye-opener.
-
Love isn't love until you give it away.
-
Love thine enemies...it really pisses them off.
-
LSD melts in your mind, not in your hands.
-
Make hay while the sun shines.
-
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.
-
Mankind is naturally evil, society inhibits it.
-
Many a family tree needs trimming.
-
Many hands make light work.
-
Men are like toilets: the good ones are taken, the rest are full of shit.
-
Moderation is good, but boring.
-
Money can't buy everything. That's what credit cards are for.
-
Money can't buy happiness, but allows a choice of misery.
-
Money can't buy happiness... but it sure makes misery a lot easier to live
with.
-
Money can't buy love. But it CAN rent a very close imitation.
-
Money makes the world go around. Love just barely keeps it from blowing
up.
-
Money won't buy happiness, but it will get a dinner date.
-
Money won't buy happiness, but it's a great down payment.
-
Most people deserve each other.
-
Murphy's law only fails when you try to demonstrate it.
-
Nature abhors a vacuum.
-
Nature abhors second order differential equations.
-
Nice guys don't finish nice.
-
No amount of careful planning will ever replace dumb luck.
-
No job is so simple that is can't be done wrong.
-
No matter how much you do, you'll never do enough.
-
No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right.
-
No matter where you go; you're there.
-
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
-
No one is perfect, but some of us are closer than others.
-
Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
-
Nobody gets out of the Bermuda Triangle. Not even for lunch.
-
Nobody notices when things go right.
-
Nostalgia is okay but not what it used to be.
-
Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up.
-
Nothing ever goes away.
-
Nothing is illegal until you get caught.
-
Nothing is so simple that it can't get screwed up.
-
Nothing is wrong with you that reincarnation can't cure.
-
Old age and treachery will beat youth and enthusiasm.
-
Old hippies never die, they just flashback!
-
Old musicians don't die... they just decompose.
-
Old soldiers never die. Young ones do.
-
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.
-
One good turn gets most of the blankets.
-
One on-topic post a day keeps the moderator at bay
-
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.
-
Open mouth, insert foot, echo internationally.
-
Opposites attract.
-
Out of sight, out of mind.
-
Part-time musicians are semiconductors.
-
People have one thing in common: they are all different.
-
People who live in glass houses... shouldn't.
-
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
-
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us
who do.
-
Philosophers can be divided into two groups: those who divide philosophers
into two groups, and those who don't.
-
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-
Practice makes
perfeckt.
-
Predestination was doomed from the start.
-
Pure drivel tends to drive away ordinary drivel.
-
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
-
Religions change, but beer and wine remain.
-
Resistance is useless! (If < 1 ohm)
-
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by
killing all those who opposed them.
-
Romulans are so ruthless because every day is a bad hair day.
-
Sarcasm helps keep you from telling people what you really think of them.
-
Schizophrenia beats being alone.
-
Sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell.
-
So many cheques, so little money.
-
So many lawyers, so few bullets.
-
So many pedestrians, so little time.
-
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
-
Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.
-
Some do, some don't, some will and some won't.
-
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge... others just gargle.
-
Some have morals, some don't, most simply ignore them.
-
Still waters run deep.
-
Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.
-
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
-
Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.
-
Taxation *with* representation isn't so hot, either.
-
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
-
Test tube babies shouldn't throw stones.
-
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains because the average
man can see better than he can think.
-
The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
-
The best way to a man's heart is to saw his breast plate open.
-
The bigger they are, the harder they hit.
-
The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet.
-
The buck doesn't even slow down here.
-
The colder the X-Ray table, the more of your body is required on it.
-
The course of progress: Most things get steadily worse.
-
The early cat gets the bird if the early dog hasn't already eaten it.
-
The Earth is like a grain of sand, only bigger.
-
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
-
The fatter you are, the harder it is to see your feet.
-
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
-
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
-
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
-
The key to a good deal in life is not making a big deal about anything.
-
The more things change, the more they stay insane.
-
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
-
The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.
-
The most expensive component always breaks first.
-
The new baby is like royalty, he's the prince of wails.
-
The nice thing about having nothing is you don't have to worry about
losing it.
-
The nice thing about kleptomania is that you can take something for it.
-
The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar
territory.
-
The pants were very sad, they were depressed.
-
The problem with people who worship themselves is when they get together
their religions conflict.
-
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
-
The real trick to carrying on is not getting carried away.
-
The real world is a special case.
-
The reward for a job well done is more work.
-
The rich get richer; the poor get babies.
-
The second most preposterous notion is that copulation is inherently
sinful.
-
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
-
The shortest distance between two puns is a straight line.
-
The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.
-
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult is was.
-
The trouble with getting a life is making the payments.
-
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-
The Two Rules of Success: 1. Don't tell everything you know.
-
The unexamined life is not worth living.
-
The way to a man's heart is through the left ventricle.
-
The whole purpose of your life is to serve as a warning to others.
-
The world's so terrible that one can only make fun of it.
-
The worst thing about censorship is [deleted by censorship].
-
The young know the rules, the old know the exceptions.
-
Therapy helps, but screaming obscenities is cheaper.
-
There are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damned lies & statistics
-
There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't.
-
There are few problems that can't be solved with high explosives.
-
There is always a law against doing anything interesting.
-
There is more room in your head for thoughts than thoughts in your head
for room.
-
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-
There is no need to lie your way through life, just keep the truth at a
safe distance.
-
There's no point in being grownup if you can't be childish sometimes.
-
Things get worse under pressure.
-
Things will get worse before they get better.
-
Thinking about the past is a great excuse to waste the present and forget
about the future.
-
This statement is false.
-
Those on the cutting edge bleed a lot.
-
Those who can't write, write manuals.
-
Those who fail to understand hyperbole may lose their asymptotes.
-
Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.
-
Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
-
Those who live in stone houses shouldn't throw glass.
-
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.
-
Time flies when you don't know what you're doing.
-
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
-
Tis better to be thought a fool, then to open your mouth and remove all
doubt.
-
To be a "proactive" lefty in the new South Africa is to give in to the
demands of the other group before they have even made those demands.
-
To err and to blame someone else is human, but to really screw things up
requires a computer.
-
To err is human, and stupid.
-
To err is human, to blame it on a computer is even more so.
-
To err is Human, to blame it on someone else is politics.
-
To err is human, to forgive is $5.00
-
To err is human, to forgive is simply not our policy.
-
To err is human, to moo is bovine.
-
To err is Human, with blondes it's mandatory.
-
To iterate is human; to
recurse, divine.
-
To join boldly infinitives which no man has joined before.
-
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your
principles.
-
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
-
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
-
Truth is stranger than fiction.
-
Two heads are better than one.
-
Two most common elements in the universe: Hydrogen & Stupidity.
-
Two thirds of Americans can't do fractions.The other half, just doesn't
care.
-
Two wrongs are only the beginning.
-
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left.
-
Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the
smell.
-
War doesn't determine who's right, but who's left.
-
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
-
What goes around usually gets dizzy and falls over.
-
What the hell, go and put all your eggs in one basket.
-
What will be, will be.
-
What you don't do is always more important than what you do do.
-
Whatever you delete today, you desperately need tomorrow.
-
When it comes to thought some people stop at nothing.
-
When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.
-
When you pull the pin on Mr Grenade, he is no longer your friend.
-
When you swim in the creek, and an eel bites your cheek, that's a moray!
-
Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.
-
While some people need friends, most people just need someone they can be
better than.
-
Who dies, wins.
-
Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.
-
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
-
You can actually get anywhere in ten minutes if you go fast enough.
-
You can be a king or a street-sweeper, but everybody at the end dances
with the Grim Reaper.
-
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
-
You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.
-
You can't be late until you show up.
-
You can't dream too much; you can't do enough to make your dreams come
true.
-
You can't tell a book by its cover.
-
You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
-
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
-
You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.
-
You don't have to conform to the values of your peers. It gets pretty
boring sitting home every night though.
-
You know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
-
You know you've landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi.
-
You live and you learn. Or you don't live long.
-
You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
-
You're either part of the solution or part of the precipitate.
-
You're never too old to learn something stupid.
-
You're only young once; you can be immature forever
-
Your type doesn't stay around long enough to stay your type.