quotes on attitude funny

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then. ~John Oliver Hobbes



What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. ~Christopher Fry



When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. ~Bill Balance



Literature is the question minus the answer. ~Roland Barthes



Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies. ~Ken Wilbur



I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse. ~Brian Eno, Wired, January 1999



Men are better when riding, more just and more understanding, and more alert and more at ease and more under-taking, and better knowing of all countries and all passages; in short and long all good customs and manners cometh thereof, and the health of man and of his soul. ~Attributed to Edward Plantagenet



Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man. ~George Wherry, Alpine Notes and the Climbing Foot, 1896



I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don't expect me to tell you to stop. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. ~Washington Irving



They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. ~Arthur Schopenhauer



A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. ~Carl Sandburg



We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ~Frank Tibolt



There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." ~Robert Flaherty



Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau



The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. ~Pearl S. Buck



Snowmen fall from heaven... unassembled. ~Author Unknown



Uneven numbers are the gods' delight. ~Virgil, The Eclogues



An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. ~Andy Warhol



There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray. ~Lee Trevino