vineri, 14 iunie 2013

UMOR ANGLO-AMERICAN

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who cant’ talk
for people who can’t read. (Frank Zappa)
A mind once expanded by new ideas never returns to its orginal shape.
(Albert Einstein)
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen,
she was sixteen, and I was three. (Bill Holiday)
If you believe that, you’ll believe anything.
He’s always backing into the limelight.
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful.
People shouldn’t be treated like objects. They aren’t that valuable.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. (T. S. Eliot)
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. (Don Marquis)
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. (H. L. Mencken)
He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch. (Franklin D. Roosvelt)
Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Dogs are interested in fleas. (P. J. O’ Rourke)
The duty of an Oposition is very simple… to oppose everything, and propose nothing. (Lord Derby)
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. (Henry Brooks Adams)
A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight begins. (Heywood Broun)
If you want to succed in politics, you must keep your conscience well under control. (David Lloyd George)
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of the more trivial men. (George Jean Nathan)
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
(Bernard Baruch)
Gratitude is not a normal feature of political life. (Lord Kilmuir)
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited
by ignorance. (Harold Macmillan)
An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
(Adlai Stevenson)
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. (Ronald Reagan)
Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television? (Art Buchwald)
Tolerance is only another name for indifference. (W. Somerset Maugham)
When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
If homosexuality were the normal way, God would have made Adam and Bruce.
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet ’em on your way dawn.
Logic and taxation are not always the best of our friends.
Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death or taxes.
There never was a good war, or a bad peace. (Benjamin Franklin)
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. (W. C. Fields)
When a woman isn’t beautiful, people always say, ’’you have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair’’.
Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another. (Stephen Leacock)
A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn’t feel like it. An amateur is a man who can’t do his job when he does feel like it.
Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.
They are Germans. Don’t mention the war.
No matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian a question he will persist in ansering you in French. (Fran Lebowitz)
God made the country, and man made the town.
He found it inconvenient to be poor.
What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank? (Bertolt Brecht)
I’m trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. (Oliver North).
One dies only once, and it’s for such a long time! (Moliere)
Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. (Alexander Pope)
The report of my death was an exaggeration. (Mark Twain)
Man is Nature’s sole mistake! (W. S. Gilbert)
I cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a croud of man. (Max Beerbohm)
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
(Oscar Wilde)
Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff of study the problem. (Bill Vaughan)
There are laws to protect the freedom of the press’s speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
The report of my death was an exaggeration. (Mark Twain)
I’m with you on the free press. It’s the newspapers I cant’ stand. (Tom Stoppard)
If at first idea is not absurd, then is no hope for it.
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
What comes from the heart goes to the heart. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened
of old ones. (John Cage)
The profit of great ideas comes when you turn them into reality. (Tom Hopkins)
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. (Erich Fromm)
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
(Leon Tro
țky)
The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas. (Alfred de Vigny)







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