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"Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new nickname for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname 'Fly Head'. Normally, you would think that 'Fly Head' would mean a person who had beautiful swept-back features, as if flying though the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean 'having a head like a fly' I'm afraid some people might actually think that." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits." »G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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"To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle." »Author Unknown
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"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"I found out that when you get married the man becomes the head of the house. And the woman becomes the neck, and she turns the head any way she wants to." »Yakov Smirnoff
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"Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone." »Rodney Dangerfield
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"To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone." »Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature
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"From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage.
From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought.
From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence." »Visions of Gregorian Chants
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"Stuart Would ya look at the size of that kid's head It's the size of a planetoid and it has it's own weather system Looks like an orange on a toothpick I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik spherical but quite pointy at parts He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow." »So I Married an Axe Murderer
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"While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too.'" »Jake Johanson
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"Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest." »Samuel Johnson
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"Nicky I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning ill get up nice and early, take a walk down over to the bank and... walk in and see and uh... if you don't have my money for me, I'll... crack your f***in' head wide-open in front of everybody in the bank. And just about the time I'm comin' out of jail, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what I'll split your f***in' head open again. 'Cause I'm f***in' stupid. I don't give a f*** about jail. That's my business. That's what I do." »Casino
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"Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning." »Rosenstock-Huessy
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"A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?"
"Only the village druggist," was the answer.
"And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman.
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."" »Author Unknown
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"If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun." »Benjamin Franklin
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"A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them." »Elbert Hubbard
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"Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away." »Oscar Levant
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"What a splendid head, yet no brain." »Aesop
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"The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head." »Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel
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""Alas! I have more hair on my shoulders then on my head."" »Paul. F. Meekin
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"A hair on the head is worth two on the brush." »Irish Proverb
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"Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing." »Georges Jacques Danton, to his executioner
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"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." »Jonathan Swift
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"A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea." »Jules Renard
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"He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating." »Ayn Rand
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"The blind man is laughing at the bald head." »Persian Proverb
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"All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart, not the head." »Suzanne Chapin
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"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes it's partner in crime." »Mignon McLaughlin
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