very funny quotes for facebook

If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength. ~Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld


If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together. ~Theodore White


Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." ~Mark Twain, autobiography, 1904 (but, as yet no actual record of this under Disraeli's authorship)


Fair dealing: a doctrine of limitations and exceptions to copyright which is found in many of the common law jurisdictions of the Commonwealth of Nations.


Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ~Edward R. Murrow


Tea...is a religion of the art of life. ~Okakura


You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The world is your school. ~Martin H. Fischer


What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ~Havelock Ellis


Necessity does the work of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler


Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. ~Edith Sitwell


Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. ~Epicurus


It was that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history. ~John Toland


Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world. ~Bruce Barton


A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ~Benny Green


God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. ~St. Augustine


One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers... ~Heinrich Hertz


Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit. ~Author Unknown


The public blabbers about preventative medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure. ~Martin H. Fischer