Mixing Up Words When Speaking Funny Quotes & Sayings

And yet I don't suppose that ten per cent of the proletariat live correctly. — Oscar Wilde

They say that democracy cannot be adopted; it has to be adapted to the African way of thinking. What does that mean? That the all-powerful and corrupt political leaders should stay in power? That Teodoro Obiang, the President of Equatorial Guinea, should appropriate all the country's money for himself, a country with income per capita of more than 20,000 euros thanks to oil but where people suffer hunger and poverty? Or that women should not have any rights? — Fernando Ballano Gonzalo

you can't always have what you want, and sometimes you're better off without it. — Len Levinson

But here there was only hot swing music and liquor, dance halls, ban, and movies, and sex that hung in the gloom like a chandelier and flooded the world with brief, deceptive rainbows. — Tennessee Williams

I am starting to see there is a difference between "saying prayers" and honest praying. Both can sound the same on the outside, but the former is too often motivated by a sense of obligation and guilt; whereas the latter is motivated by a conviction that I am completely helpless to "do life" on my own. Or in the case of praying for others, that I am completely helpless to help others without the grace and power of God. — Paul E. Miller

You are a shelf of books without the pages. — Gabrielle Aplin

I've got you under my skin, or is it just my eczma again? — Tyne O'Connell

I've concluded that I learned far more from my failures than from my successes. — June Hunt

Life is indeed colourful. We can feel in the pink one day, with our bank balances comfortably in the black, and the grass seemingly no greener on the other side of the fence. Then out of the blue, something tiresome happens that makes us see red, turn ashen white, even purple with rage. Maybe controlling our varying emotions is just 'colour management' by another name. — Alex Morritt

The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself may be on the way to self-management, perhaps to cure.11 — Viktor E. Frankl

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially. — Edgar Alwin Payne

You are not to be guided by your intellect, but by your wisdom, as you are Sahaja Yogis. So, you have a very good instrument of feeling it. Through your vibrations you can make out what is good and what is bad. — Nirmala Srivastava

Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda