Witty Quotes - Page 9

• Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom", most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Mother, Daughter, Night

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• Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.

  Helen Prejean

  Pain, Self, Enough

  Helen Prejean (2011). “Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States”, p.144, Vintage

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• Make the most of What you have, When you have it, Where you are.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Where You Are

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• I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

  Dinah Shore

  Men, Pay, Today

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• It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Circles, Political, Matter

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• Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

  Faye Wattleton

  Rights, Choices, Our Future

  Faye Wattleton (1998). “Life on the Line”

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• You never find yourself until you face the truth.

  Pearl Bailey

  Life, Encouraging, Being Yourself

  Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket

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• You're only as good as your last haircut.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Humorous, Lasts

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  A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Laughter, Hipster

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Jun 14, 2011

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• I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Powerful, Humorous

  Speech at Scopes trial, Dayton, Tenn., 15 July 1925

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• When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

  Dian Fossey

  Inspirational, Life, Future

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  I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

  Dolly Parton

  Funny, Inspiring, Girly

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• I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

  A. J. Liebling

  Powerful, Humorous, Writing

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• People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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• I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Friendship, Kids

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  Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Powerful, Humorous, Museums

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

  Ayn Rand

  Faith, Religious, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.335, Penguin

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• A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Goal, Desire

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.286, Hamilton Books

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• Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

  Ayn Rand

  Humor, Mean, Rights

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.305, Penguin

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• I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Movie, Stars

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• Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

  Jean Rostand

  Funny, Marriage, Humorous

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• In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Success, Marriage

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.

  Rita Rudner

  Boyfriend, Marriage, Breakup

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• I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

  Rita Rudner

  Children, Parenting, Feel Good

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• All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Humorous, Science, Insightful

  Quoted in J. B. Birks, Rutherford at Manchester (1962)

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