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It’s not that I’m a Type‑B personality; it’s that I’m driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

Robert Brault

American writer

Characteristics Type‑B personality

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

Johnny Carson

(1925 – 2005) television host

Characteristics Children People Things Barn Naive

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

Mignon McLaughlin

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

Age Characteristics Young

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

Anonymous

Characteristics Money

I used to play golf with a guy who cheated so badly that he once had a hole in one and wrote down zero on his scorecard.

Bob Bruce

professional golfer

Characteristics Golf Honesty Sports Cheating

Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me?

Albert Einstein

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

Characteristics People Self Understanding

Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke.

Claude McDonald

(1925 – ) writer

Characteristics Time Worriers

There's many a pessimist who got that way by financing an optimist.

Anonymous

Characteristics Money Optimism Pessimism

Some people think of the glass as half full; some people think of the glass as half empty; I think of the glass as too big.

George Carlin

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

Characteristics Glass half full Optimism Pessimism

A thick skin is a gift from God.

Konrad Adenauer

(1876 – 1967) German statesman

Characteristics God Thick skin

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

author

Characteristics Culture

You won’t regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

Bernard Cornwell

(1944 – ) English author

Characteristics People Women Regret

To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.

Benjamin Franklin

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

Characteristics Friends Old People Women Faults Praise

A lady is one who never shows her underwear… unintentionally.

Lillian Day Lederer

(1893 – 1991) novelist, biographer & playwright

Appearance Characteristics Clothing Lady

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

Oscar Wilde

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Characteristics People Gentleman

A loafer always has the correct time.

Frank ‘Kin’ Hubbard

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Characteristics Time Laziness

Of all the great qualities he had, and there were so many, there was one thing that set him apart from everybody else; he really thought I was funny.

George Burns

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Characteristics Self Humility Jack Benny

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Henry Kissinger

(1923 – ) German-born diplomat & scholar

Characteristics Success Boredom Celebrity

Fidelity : A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Ambrose Bierce

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Characteristics Definitions Marriage Fidelity Virtues

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

Marion Barry Jr.

(1936 – ) American politician, Mayor of Washington, D.C.

Characteristics Honesty Lies Truth On his arrest for drug use

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.