Subject: Characteristics (Page 19)

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author
Characteristics

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you.

American baseball player
Baseball Characteristics Sports

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

(1824 – 1907) Irish mathematical physicist & engineer
Characteristics People

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Characteristics

The other night I went out on a date with a guy who said he didn't like girls who were fragile or vulnerable… so I stabbed him.

comedian
Characteristics Dating Relationships Situations

She's generous to a fault… if it's her own.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist
Characteristics Communication

Home is where you hang your head.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
Characteristics

He is a self-made man and worships his creator.

(1811 – 1889) British statesman
Characteristics Insults

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.

(1947 – ) Canadian cartoonist (For Better or For Worse)
Characteristics Emotions

There is no heavier burden than a great potential.

cartoon character in, Peanuts, by Charles Schulz (1922 – 2000)
Characteristics

Everything comes to him who waits… except a loaned book.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist
Characteristics Communication

They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

(1947 – ) American playwright, screenwriter & film director
Characteristics

There are two kinds of truth: there are real truths, and there are made up truths.

(1936 – ) American politician, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
Characteristics Honesty Lies Truth

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child’s parent or grandparent.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author
Characteristics Children Family

The more you complain, the longer God makes you live.

Characteristics God Life

Anyone who says the truth shall set you free has never been to traffic court.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine
Characteristics Truth

Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.

author
Characteristics

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

(1930 – ) American author and billiard player, teacher & commentator
Characteristics

I have no sex appeal and it has screwed me up for life; my gynecologist examines me by telephone.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director
Characteristics Self Sex

Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author
Characteristics Things

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

(1930 – ) financier & investment businessman
Characteristics Problems