Subject: Characteristics (Page 6)

If an ass goes a-traveling, he'll not come home a horse.

Characteristics Proverbs Situations

Laziness: The habit of resting before you get tired.

Characteristics Definitions

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

businessman
Characteristics Relationships Success

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

If it looks easy, it's tough… if it looks tough, it's near impossible.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Situations

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Characteristics Men People Women

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

(1959 – ) American comedian
Characteristics Taxes

Power corrupts; absolute power is kind of neat.

(1942 – ) American investment banker, writer & Secretary of the Navy
Characteristics

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

(1795 – 1881) Scottish philosopher, writer, historian & teacher
Characteristics

How long is it polite to pretend to continue to listen to someone after they’ve revealed they’ve got a boyfriend?

(1975 – ) English comedian, actor & writer
Characteristics Communication

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

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist
Characteristics Communication

If he fell into a pile of horse shit, he’d start looking for a pony.

Characteristics Expressions

Chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

(1920 – 2000) physician, gerontologist, pacifist, anarchist & writer
Characteristics Sex

If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?

(1942 – ) Scottish comedian, musician & actor
Beliefs Characteristics Religion

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol
Characteristics People

I have a lot of growing up to do; I realized that the other day inside my fort.

(1969 – ) comedian & actor
Age Characteristics

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Characteristics

Many a live wire would be a dead one except for his connections.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter
Characteristics

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realize how much we have in common.

(1957 – ) English actor, writer, journalist, comedian & film director
Characteristics England People Places

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Beliefs Characteristics Emotions

I'm compulsive, but I'm also very indecisive; I don't know what I want, but I know that I want it now.

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer
Characteristics