Facebook share Tweet This Email this
Let these funny Barely Quotes from my large collection of funny quotes about life add a little humor to your day.
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
Get a Funny Quote of the Day each day by email or in your feed reader.
"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Winston Churchill
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house
with the conscious design of doing me good,
I should run for my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
It is an open question whether any behavior
based on fear of eternal punishment
can be regarded as ethical
or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
- Margaret Mead
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
The Ought-To Need-To Tango:
I am racked with the guilt and the pain of I should,
and I ought, and I can't, but I must.
I can't rest; I can't sleep; I'm just not understood,
and I hate that the world is unjust.
I have work; I have woes; I have troubles for life;
but I don't have a ME that I trust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
There is NOTHING that I "must",
"have to", or "should" do today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
When a man assumes a public trust
he should consider himself a public property.
- Thomas Jefferson
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We may have our private opinions
but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old,
and that I know.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A Bill of Rights is what the people are
entitled to against every government,
and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Thomas Jefferson
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
The one serious conviction that a man should have
is that nothing should be taken too seriously.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay.
If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every citizen should be a soldier.
This was the case with the Greeks and Romans,
and must be that of every free state.
- Thomas Jefferson
I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment,
failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer,
I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
- Winston Churchill
Do not do unto others
as you expect they should do unto you.
Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Were it left to me to decide whether we should
have a government without newspapers,
or newspapers without a government,
I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
- Thomas Jefferson
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Thank you for visiting: Funny Barely Quotes - Funny Quotes about Barely.
Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
You can also search my large collection of Funny Quotes.
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.