Feeling down? Saddle up. ~Author Unknown
Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole. ~Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest in which readers were asked to alter a word by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter and supply a new definition
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair. ~Martial
You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses, and he wears a beret. He is French, people. ~Conan O'Brien, 2003
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ~C.P. Snow, New York Times, 15 March 1971
While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. ~Eugene V. Debs, Cleveland, 1917
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever. ~J. Swartz
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. ~Sir Thomas Browne
A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant. ~Helen Rowland
Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. ~Robert Benchley
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. ~H.W. Shaw
Debt is the worst poverty. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
He who does not know how to believe, should not know. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said. ~Author Unknown
One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it. ~Georges Courteline, La Philosophie de Georges Courteline
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. ~Madeleine L'Engle
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874
My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America. ~Val Saintsbury
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ~Epictetus
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body. ~Elaine Boosler
Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language. ~Pablo Picasso
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? ~Pablo Casals
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