Subject: Characteristics (Page 49)

He’d steal flies from a blind spider.

Characteristics Expressions Honesty

Canada’s national bird is the grouse.

(1913 – 1987) Canadian journalist
Characteristics Places

Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least.

public relations manager
Characteristics Murphy’s Laws People

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

(1884 – 1962) diplomat & reformer & first lady
Characteristics People

Slicker than a greased eel.

Characteristics Expressions

I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist
Characteristics Honesty

Murphy was an optimist.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

Virtue is its own punishment.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

If these walls could talk they’d be like ‘damn bitch, you’re back in bed again!?

(1978 – ) American stand-up comedian, actress & writer
Activities Characteristics

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Characteristics People

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter
Characteristics

Tolerance: Another word for indifference.

Characteristics Definitions

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Characteristics Proverbs

You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Characteristics Intelligence Time

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Characteristics People

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer’s heart.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian
Characteristics Entertainment Hollywood Places

Some people have a chip on their shoulder; Billy has a whole lumberyard.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
Baseball Characteristics Sports

I’m so lazy I’ve got a smoke alarm with a snooze button.

(1967 – ) English actor, writer & comedian
Characteristics Situations Things

As an intellectual, he bestowed upon the games of golf and bridge all the enthusiasm and perseverance that he withheld from his books and ideas.

(1920 – 1982) foreign bureau chief, editor & speechwriter
Characteristics Golf Insults Intelligence

A thick skin is a gift from God.

(1876 – 1967) German statesman
Characteristics God

A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card.


Characteristics God