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Quotes by Anonymous

My folks refused to have more than four children after reading that every fifth child born in the world is Chinese.

Every small boy wonders why his father didnt go into the ice cream business.

Dad named his first ulcer after me.

MOTHER TO TEENAGER ON SUNDAY MORNING: I believe I heard the clock strike one when you came in last night. teen: Well I know how much you need your sleep so it was going to strike ten but I stopped it at one chime.

I hope I look as good as my mother does when I reach the age she says she isnt.

Oboe - an ill woodwind that nobody blows good.

Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.

Necessity has no law.

Necessity the mother of invention.

By evil report and good report.

Night when deep sleep falleth on men.

Persistence is the master virtue. Without it there is no other.

A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.

We rate ability in men by what they finish not by what they begin.

The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running.

Its the steady constant driving to the goal for which youre striving not the speed with which you travel that will make your victory sure.

Im not there yet but Im closer than I was yesterday.

If something is boring after two minutes try it for four. If still boring try for eight sixteen thirty-two and so on. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.

Hope says to us constantly go on go on and leads us to the grave.

It is with enterprises as with striking fire we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts and often at the instant when we despaired of success.