Menander Monostichoi Quotes & Sayings

Most people think that aging is genetic and yet if your parents lived to age 80+ that will add three years to your life. — Deepak Chopra

In the end, it's the little things that matter most. They explode with importance. — Diane Rivoli

Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh. — Peter Capaldi

This is true of any device that uses power, which is a handy thing to know. For example, people worry about leaving disconnected chargers plugged into the wall for fear that they're draining power. Are they right? Heat flow analysis provides a simple rule of thumb: If an unused charger isn't warm to the touch, it's using less than a penny of electricity a day. For a small smartphone charger, if it's not warm to the touch, it's using less than a penny a year. This is true of almost any powered device. — Randall Munroe

If I should sell my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. — Henry David Thoreau

When literacy died, so had history. — Walter Tevis

Rain fell more steadily now. Grey and unrelenting. Nobody seemed to notice. Rain on the puddles. Rain on the high brickwork. Rain on the slate roofs. Rain on the rain itself. — Colum McCann

Go become someone's miracle! — Abhishek Kumar

They put up this bloke's picture on Crimewatch UK with a phone number and said 'Have you seen this man?' Well my auntie rang them up and said 'No'. — Jasper Carrott

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart. — Rebecca Harding Davis

To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair. — Andre Maurois

Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God". — Stephen Hawking

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it. — John Wayne

GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers. — Ambrose Bierce