Peter Lustig Quotes & Sayings

He was mad enough to chew nails and spit horseshoes! — Waylon Jennings

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute. — Dirk Bogarde

Any program is only as good as it is useful. — Linus Torvalds

Life can never be perfect. Don't let anyone fool you into believing that it will be. — Dennis Adonis

I can pass days
Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees,
Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,
The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs,
Each tree a natural harp,
each different leaf
A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

When someone asks you the question 'Are you ticklish' it doesn't matter if you say yes or no, cause they're going to touch you. If someone asks if you're ticklish and you don't want to be touched you should something like 'I have diarrhea, now don't touch me cause you'll make it come out ... and yes I'm very ticklish'. — Demetri Martin

He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue. — Benjamin Franklin

I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. - A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything. — Thomas Paine

Could anything be more improbable than that a religion following a man born of an unwed mother among a widely despised people in an out-of-the-way part of the world - a man then crucified by the ruling authorities on a charge of treason - should become the official religion of the Roman world, the formative influence on Western civilization, and a significant influence in other parts of the world? — Everett Ferguson

Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow. . . . — Oscar Wilde