funny positive quotes

"After all, golf is only a game," said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is a kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying. ~P.G. Wodehouse, Order by Golf, 1922



There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. ~Woody Allen



When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"



In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold. ~B. Zander, The Art of Possibility



Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb



Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. ~Josh Billings



The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity. ~Jean Paul Richter



It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play. ~Charlotte Davis Kasl, Finding Joy, 1994



The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ~Vladimir Nabokov



The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ~Marcel Proust



Christmas is the day that holds all time together. ~Alexander Smith



Each patient ought to feel somewhat the better after the physician's visit, irrespective of the nature of the illness. ~Warfield Theobald Longcope



Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed. ~William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693



How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? ~Katherine Mansfield



Morphine and state relief are the same. You go dopey, feel better and are worse off. ~Martin H. Fischer



The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6



Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. ~George Jean Nathan, House of Satan



In riding a horse we borrow freedom. ~Helen Thomson



Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. ~Song of Solomon 8:6