Air quotes: the action of using one's fingers to make quotation marks in the air during speech; often used to express some degree of satire, sarcasm, irony, or euphemism.
There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't. ~Author Unknown
Dreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day. ~Author Unknown
Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for! ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook. ~Groucho Marx
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet
Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit, either. ~Elizabeth Zimmerman
Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. ~Author Unknown
Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right. ~H.H. "Breaker" Morant
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. ~Francis Rabelais
Oh how we love pumpkin season. You did know this gourd-ish squash has its own season, right? Winter, Spring, Summer, Pumpkin.... We anxiously anticipate it every year. ~Trader Joe's Fearless Flyer, October 2010
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. ~Charles de Gaulle
How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Aphorist: someone who formulates aphorisms.
We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to. ~Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727
Sometimes I get the feeling the aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches. ~Terri Guillemets
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life. ~Lord Chesterfield
Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
We have them just where they want us. ~James T. Kirk
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