Quotations about Complaining

In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine.  ~Author Unknown

I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do.  ~Joe Walsh

It is no use to grumble and complain;
It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather and sends rain -
Why, rain’s my choice.
~James Whitcomb Riley

Sweat silently.  Let’s have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.  ~Martin H. Fischer

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.  ~Randall Jarrell

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.  ~Antoine Rivarol

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.  ~Lord Jeffrey

Quotations about Committees & Meetings

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.  ~H.L. Mencken

A “Normal” person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee.  You know, “Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray.”  ~Alan Sherman

Football is a mistake.  It combines two of the worst things about American life.  It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.  ~George Will

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.  ~Elbert Hubbard

A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.  ~Author Unknown

A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary.  ~Author Unknown

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.  ~Author Unknown

Quotations about College

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.  ~Russell Green

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D.  Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.  ~”Fats” Domino

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn’t.  ~L.L. Hendren

College is the best time of your life.  When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?  ~David Wood

A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.  ~Robert Maynard Hutchins

Does college pay?  They do if you are a good open-field runner.  ~Will Rogers

A college education shows a man how little other people know.  ~Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Quotations about Coffee & Caffeine

As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.  ~Author Unknown

Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee.  ~Author Unknown

Way too much coffee.  But if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever.  ~David Letterman

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.  ~Author Unknown

Decaffeinated coffee is the devil’s blend.  ~Author Unknown

This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion.  Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place.  Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind.  The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters.  Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.  ~Honore de Balzac, “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee”

Quotations about Clothing

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends…. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.  ~Henry David Thoreau

I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent.  A person, yes.  ~Robert A. Heinlein

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.  ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Seldom do people discern
Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.
~Juvenal

If men can run the world, why can’t they stop wearing neckties?  How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?  ~Linda Ellerbee

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie.  Neckties strangle clear thinking.  ~Lin Yutang

A man hasn’t got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.  ~Anne Petry

Quotations about Civilization

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.  ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

We pass through this world but once.  Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.  ~Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

And the wind shall say “Here were decent godless people;
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.”
~T.S. Eliot

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.  ~Albert Einstein

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.  ~Lois McMaster Bujold

K is for “Kenghis Khan.”  He was a very nice person.  History has no record of him.  There is a moral in that, somewhere.  ~Harlan Ellison, From A to Z in the Chocolate Alphabet