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Fun Quotes - Page 23

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

George Burns (1986). “Dear George: advice & answers from America's leading expert on everything from A to B”, G K Hall & Co

If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I'd still say no.

Song: Ex-Girlfriend Racial Humor, Album: Words Words Words, 2010

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

"Selections from the Prison Notebooks". Book by Antonio Gramsci, 1971.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

Quoted in Bennett Cerf, Try and Stop Me: A Collection of Anecdotes and Stories, Mostly Humorous (1944). Although this is usually credited to Mizner, the Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 1941, quotes Bob Oliver: "If you steal from one man, it's plagiarism. If you steal from several, it's research."

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.

"Character: Ronald Reagan". "The Tripper", www.imdb.com. 2006.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

"Fictional character: Jerry Sunborne". "Things We Lost in the Fire", www.imdb.com. 2007.

Good things come to those who wait.

Jess C. Scott (2010). “Porcelain”, p.147, jessINK

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

George W. Bush's remarks on teaching American history and civic education at East Literature Magnet School in Nashville, Tennessee, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 17, 2002.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

"A Note on George Carlin about Steroids and Sports from a Practical Idealist" by Carol Smaldino, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2009.