Personals Ad Quotes & Sayings

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them? — Charles Caleb Colton

The novel puts an ad in the personals:
Serial monogamist seeks same.
6x9, 220 pages. Hobbies: candlelit
tension, tasteful gore. Weakness:
occasional flashbacks. Enjoys long
walks on the beach to search for
bodies washing up on shore. — Erin Murphy

You've been in love with someone for a decade - someone who barely knows you're alive. You've done everything, tried everything to make this person see that you're a valuable, estimable person, and that your love is worth something. Then one day you open the paper and glance at the Personals column, and there you see that your loved one has placed an ad ... seeking someone worthwhile to love and be loved by. — Daniel Quinn

The newspapers were always against me in the beginning because they thought I was depriving people of what they wanted. — Harry Triguboff

I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform. — Robbie Williams

First, the weather got hotter every day, and the hay press broke down every day. Second, the boss fell in love with Marian Wray, and the hay press broke down every day. Third, inside of forty-eight hours everybody on that crew hated everybody else, and the hay press broke down every day. Fourth, and most important of all, the hay press broke down every day. — Max Brand

To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. — Emile M. Cioran

Consider heart attacks. Even as recently as the 1950s, we had little idea of how to prevent or treat them. We didn't know, for example, about the danger of high blood pressure, and had we been aware of it we wouldn't have known what to do about it. The first safe medication to treat hypertension was not developed and conclusively demonstrated to prevent disease until the 1960s. We didn't know about the role of cholesterol, either, or genetics or smoking or diabetes. Furthermore, — Atul Gawande

There are no innocent bystanders ... — William S. Burroughs

I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me. — Marianne Williamson

Chaos and barbarism, which always threatened to overwhelm the movement, sharply increased as bin Laden took the helm. — Lawrence Wright

You must eliminate from your thoughts all doubt and uncertainty that you will get well; that you will succeed; that you will gain your point and get what you want. You may have some uncertainty as to methods, but you must have none as to ultimate results. You may not feel certain that you will succeed today, or next week, but you must feel certain that you will succeed sometime. — Wallace D. Wattles

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire. — Rumi

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art. — George Bernard Shaw