Quotations Quotes

We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.

An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.

Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.

You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.

Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.

Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.

Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.

A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.

Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you.

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.

Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.

Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit.

Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.

There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored.

There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.

Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.

We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.

Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.

Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.

Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.

Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

Most of the very few people who would choose a good heart over riches would eventually use that to either make a lot of money, or attract men or women who are rich.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.

It's Okay to Play or Work Alone in the Information Age But If We Must Make Headway in this Transformation Age, Collaboration is the Way to Go.

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.

Unrequited love is a billion times less intolerable than unrequited hate.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

He with the cleanest clothes isn’t necessarily the cleanest.

Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.

Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.

We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed.