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Arnold, Roseanne
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the
only time of the month that I can be myself.
Augustine, Saint
Give me chastity and abstinence, O Lord, but not today.
Beckett, Samuel
Where I am, I don't
know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I
can't go on, I'll go on. (The Unnamable)
Bierce, Ambrose
Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship
something that he can see and feel. (The Devil's Dictionary)
Bloom, Harold
I am naïve enough to
read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people
profoundly enough. (Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human)
Burnham, Lester (in American
Beauty)
I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me . . . but
it's so hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world.
Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my
heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst . . . and then I
remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows
through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every
single moment of my stupid little life . . . . You have no idea what I'm
talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry . . . . You will someday.
Byron, Lord
If I should greet thee / After long years, / How should I greet thee? /
With silence and tears.
Carlin, George
The day after tomorrow
is the third day of the rest of your life.
Carroll, Lewis
Where shall I begin,
please your Majesty? he asked. Begin at the beginning the King said,
gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
"One can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was
your age I always did it for one half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I
believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Cervantes, Miguel de
"Look, sir," answered Sancho Panza, "those which appear yonder are not
giants, but windmills; and what seem to be arms are the sails, which
whirled about by the wind, make the millstone go."
"It is very evident,"
answered Don Quixote, "that thou are not versed in the business of
adventures."
Chaucer, Geoffrey
That lyf so short, the
craft so long to lerne, Th'assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge.
Churchill, Winston
Perhaps it is better
to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.
Clifton, Louise
Poetry began when
somebody wandered off a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the
sky with wonder and said, "Ah-h-h!" That was the first poem.
Confuscius
A man who as committed
a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Corneille, Pierre
To conquer without
risk is to triumph without adventure.
Crosby, David
It's hard to bullshit
the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.
Donne, John
I am two fooles, I
know, / For loving, and for saying so / In whining poetry; ('The
Triple Foole')
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
God builds his temple
in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
Empedocles
God is a circle whose
center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
Forster, E. M.
If I had to choose
between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should
have the guts to betray my country.
Fortune cookie
A good way to keep
healthy is to eat more chinese food.
Your life becomes more and more of an adventure!
Foucault, Michel
People know what they
do; / they frequently know why they do what they do; / but what they
don't know / is what what they do does.
Fuller, Margaret
It seems that it is
madder never to abandon oneself, then often to be infatuated; better to
be wounded, a captive, and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
It is therefore that I would have woman lay aside all thoughts such as
she habitually cherishes, of being taught and led by men. I would have
her, like the Indian girl, dedicate herself to the sun.
Fuller, R. Buckminster
God, to me, it seems
is a verb.
Gide, André
God lies ahead . . .
He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Hughes, Langston
Humor is your own
smile surprising you in the mirror.
Hugo, Victor
I am for religion,
against religions.
Jefferson, Thomas
I have sworn upon the
altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the
mind of man.
Keats, John
Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our
pulses; we read fine things but never feel them to the full until we
have gone the same steps as the author.
Koontz, Stephen
Maybe a guy could fall
instantly in love, but I doubt it. I think love creeps over you like a
warm feeling on a clear blue fall day. This person is in your thoughts
most of the time--all of the time actually. You see her when you close
your eyes, when you look off into the distance, when you pause from what
you are doing and take a deep breath. You remember how her fingers felt
when they touched you. The loved one became a part of you, the most
important part. At least it is that way with me when I think of you.
Kristofferson, Kris
Never go to bed with
anyone crazier than yourself.
Mayakovsky, Vladimir
To shine-- / and to
hell with everything else! / That is my motto-- / and the sun's!
Miller, Larry
I just broke up with
someone and the last thing she said to me was, "You'll never find anyone
like me again!" I'm thinking, "I should hope not! If I don't want you,
why would I want someone like you?"
Mizner, Wilson
The only sure thing
about luck is that it will change.
Mondale, Walter
If you are sure you
understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
Montaigne, Michel de
The value of life lies
not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may
live long yet live very little.
Montesquieu
There is a very good
saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him
three-sided.
Musset, Alfred de
The glass I drink from
is not large, but at least it is my own.
Paine, Thomas
Any system of religion
that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a
true religion.
Parker, Dorothy
Oh, life is a glorious
cycle of song, / A medley of extemporanea, / And love is a thing that
can never go wrong; / And I am Marie of Roumania.
Pascal
Men despise religions,
they hate it, and they fear it is true.
Pekelis, Coco
magic: n. (1)
technique used to liquefy reality; (2) something that is always afoot.
(Everything I Know I Learned on Acid)
my way: tr. v. (1) ignore the advice of others; (2) throw the I Ching
until you get the answer you're looking for; (3) lie to your shrink; (4)
remember: you are God, they are fools. (ibid)
Picasso, Pablo
When I was a child my
mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you
become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead I became a painter
and wound up as Picasso.
Prine, John
The fundamental story
of / contemporary man / is to walk away / and some day understand
Renard, Jules
There is false
modesty, but there is no false pride.
Sabatini, Rafael
He was born with the
gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
Shakespeare, William
O wonderful, wonderful,
and most wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all
whooping! (As You Like It)
When he shall die, / Take him and cut him out in little stars, / And he
shall make the face of heaven so fine / That all the world will be in
love with the night. (Romeo and Juliet)
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions!
(Hamlet, IV.v.)
Swift, Jonathan
May you live all the
days of your life.
Tolstoy, Sophie
One can't live on love
alone; and I am so stupid that I can do nothing but think of him.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect
to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not
just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing
else to do.
Williams, Robin
Ah, yes, divorce, from
the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Williams, Tennessee
I can't stand a naked
light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. |
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