Facebook share Tweet This Email this
Let these funny Inadequacy Quotes from my large collection of funny quotes about life add a little humor to your day.
We should not pretend to understand
the world only by the intellect;
we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is,
at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest,
also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
- Carl Jung
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
Get a Funny Quote of the Day each day by email or in your feed reader.
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)
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
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
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
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
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
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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 truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
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
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 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
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.
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
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
There is NOTHING that I "must",
"have to", or "should" do today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing
and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not do unto others
as you expect they should do unto you.
Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw
No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton
Some people wanted champagne and caviar
when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
If there is one principle more deeply rooted
in the mind of every American,
it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
- Thomas Jefferson
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay.
If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge of what is, does not open
the door directly to what should be.
- Albert Einstein
We may have our private opinions
but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The one serious conviction that a man should have
is that nothing should be taken too seriously.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
One that desires to excel
should endeavor in those things
that are in themselves most excellent.
- Epictetus
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
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
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
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 Inadequacy Quotes - Funny Quotes about Inadequacy.
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.