Mpamphs Quotes & Sayings

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing. — Alan Zweibel

Billy asked them in English what it was they wanted, and they at once scolded him in English for the condition of the horses. They made Billy get out of the wagon and come look at the horses. When Billy saw the condition of his means of transportation, he burst into tears. He hadn't cried about anything else in the war. — Kurt Vonnegut

If you want to get off this team you have to take a number. — Dave Revering

When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net. — Amy Dickinson

I have read - nay, I have bought! - Carlyle's 'Latter Day Pamphlets,' and look on my eight shillings as very much thrown away. To me it appears that the grain of sense is so smothered up in a sack of the sheerest trash, that the former is valueless ... I look on him as a man who was always in danger of going mad in literature and who has now done so. — Anthony Trollope

At the core of Silicon Valley is a passion for 'yes.' — Steven Levy

Don't you know that if you deny the truth about yourself you lose your soul? — Ken Follett

Man liveth from hour to hour, and knoweth not what may happen; Influences circle him on all sides, and yet must he answer for his actions: For the being that is master of himself, bendeth events to his will, But a slave to selfish passions is the wavering creature of circumstance. — Martin Farquhar Tupper