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"I am ready to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." »Winston Churchill
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"I am prepared to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." »Winston Churchill
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"You have gone far and we are proud of you always. I know that you will keep your relationship with your maker as it should be, for after all, that, as you must know, is the most important thing in this life." »Hannah Nixon
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"Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture." »Jacquelyn Mitchard
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"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it." »Conan Doyle
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"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation." »Fran Lebowitz
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"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light, namely, that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of Providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever may be its privations." »Von Humboldt
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"She gave me more than just a sweater vest that night. She gave me all this. Nothing. She gave me nothing. That's what I need. No phone book, no Game Boy, no pasta maker, TV Guide. Nowhere to go, nothing to do." »Andrew Schneider
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"The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes." »Dave Barry
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"We live in a world where lemonade is made from aritificial flavoring and furniture polish is made from real lemons" »Alfred E. Neuman, The Half-Wit and Wisdom of Alfred E. Neuman (MAD magazine)
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"The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created."" »Julian the Apostate
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"We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons..." »Alfred E. Newman
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"Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture." »St. John Baptist de La Salle, The Rules of Christian Manners and Civility (c. 1695)
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"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it." »Dee Hock
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"Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet." »Jeff Melvoin
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"The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination." »John Schaar, futurist
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"If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies." »Albert Einstein
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"People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first." »John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958)
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