funny quotes on pictures

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. ~Henri Cartier Bresson



The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us. ~Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Biodynamics



Brandy, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan. ~Ambrose Bierce



I'm an incorrigible punster. Do not incorrige me. ~Author Unknown (Thanks, Bob)



If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get. ~Frank A. Clark



The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds. ~Martin H. Fischer



The very worst fire plan is no plan. The next worse is two plans. ~Author Unknown



It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. ~Helen Rowland



Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson



Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing. ~Walt Kelly



Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. ~Stephanie Mills, ed., In Praise of Nature, 1990



A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XII "The Minister�s Vigil"



Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Rainbows apologize for angry skies. ~Sylvia Voirol



Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic. ~Lillian Jackson Braun



The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind. ~Francis H. Bradley



May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after! ~Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1749



A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. ~Feodor Dostoevski



I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. ~George Herbert Palmer