Quotations

Smoking cures weight problems...eventually...

Steven Wright

I didn't find the Las Vegas atmosphere congenial.

Ethel Merman

Without a sign, the brave man draws his sword, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

Homer

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

Francis Ford Coppola

I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a deserter. What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants.

Michael Moore

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston

Don't spit into the wind.

Proverb

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

Francis Bacon

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Helen Adams Keller

Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.

Janet Frame

Mummy: n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

Ambrose Bierce

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

Virgil

To many a one may you not give your hand, but only your paw; and I wish your paw also to have claws.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Union gives strength to the humble.

Publilius Syrus

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Anita Brookner

A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.

Edward Abbey

See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

William Shakespeare

Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Phillip K. Dick

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

William Shatner

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

Mark Twain

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