Skip to content

THE DAILY EXTRACT

(Wisdom of the Elders) Blog of quotations, epigrams,& excerpts. COMMENT/DISCUSS: twitter.com/PSeniorum.

Category: humor

Posted on January 28, 2023

“I’ve been things and seen places.”—Mae West, American actress, 1893-1980

Posted on January 4, 2023January 4, 2023

“The cure of a romantic first flame is a better surety to subsequent discretion, than all the exhortations of all the fathers, and mothers, and guardians, and maiden aunts in the universe.”—Fanny Burney, English satirical novelist, 1752-1840

Posted on December 17, 2022December 20, 2022

“He that hath no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.”—Thomas Fuller, English physician, 1654-1734

Posted on November 23, 2022November 23, 2022

“Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, ‘Be fruitful and multiply.’ But not in those words.”—Woody Allen, American film director, 1935–

Posted on November 13, 2022

“Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.”—Jane Wagner, American writer, 1935–

Posted on October 18, 2022October 17, 2022

“Book lovers never go to bed alone.”—Anonymous

Posted on October 3, 2022

“Solemnity is the shield of idiots.”—Montesquieu, French philosopher, 1689-1750

Posted on September 23, 2022September 24, 2022

“There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”—Dorothy Parker, American poet, 1893-1967 (editor’s note: this is a substitute for the “You can….” quotation. Our apologies.)

Posted on September 19, 2022

“Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, 1841-1935

Posted on September 17, 2022September 17, 2022

“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.”—Oscar Levant, American comedian, 1906-1972

Posts navigation

Page 1 Page 2 … Page 8 Next page

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 124 other subscribers

Archives

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com

Tags

"Observatio Experimenta et Inventum" a blog of quotations American comedian American novelist American writer Aristotle Chinese philosopher Cicero coffees Confucius Creators of innovative teas tisanes and coffees since 2005 Desiderius Erasmus English novelist English writer et Inventum" Euripides Experimenta free educational service French philosopher Fusion-Infusions Fusion-Infusions.com gluten-free Greek dramatist Greek philosopher Greek playwright Horace innovative gluten-free teas tisanes and coffees Irish playwright Irish proverb Mark Twain Observatio Oliver Goldsmith Oscar Wilde Plato Proverbium Seniorum ProverbiumSeniorum.WordPress.com Publilius Syrus quotation Quotations Ralph Waldo Emerson Roman maxim writer Roman philosopher Roman playwright Roman poet Seneca the Younger Sophocles teas The Daily Extract TheDailyExtract.WordPress.com tisanes
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • THE DAILY EXTRACT
    • Join 122 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • THE DAILY EXTRACT
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...