Quotes
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
Dandemis
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes (1879 - 1972)
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Judith Martin (Miss Manners)
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eleonora"
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber (1894 - 1961), in Edward R. Murrow television interview
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
David T. Wolf (1943 - )
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) (attributed)
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD), A Hundred Sayings
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
Isabel Colegate
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Ray Bradbury (1920 - ), advice to writers
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Solomon Short
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
"It's always broke, we can never fix it. On the other hand, there's nothing to break, so what is it we imagine we're fixing?"
Tom Robbins, 'Fierce Invalids Hom From Hot Climates'
