Thursday, May 3, 2007

Quotes

My Notebook

Quotes

Mark Twain

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."


Daphne du Maurier

"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard."


Pablo Picasso

"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."


Friedrich Nietzsche

"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."


Alfred E. Wiggam

"A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time."


Oscar Wilde

"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."


Thomas Jefferson

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."


Ernest Hemingway

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."


Kurt Vonnegut

"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."


William James

"There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers."


John Maynard Keynes

"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward."


A. A. Milne

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."


George Burns

"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there."


Douglas Adams

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."


Shana Alexander

"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."


An English Professor

"I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top."


Jack London

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."


Philip K. Dick

"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane."


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