My Notebook
Quotes
Mark Twain
from Quotes of the Day
"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
from Quotes of the Day
"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard."
Pablo Picasso
from Quotes of the Day
"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
from Quotes of the Day
"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."
Alfred E. Wiggam
from Quotes of the Day
"A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time."
Oscar Wilde
from Quotes of the Day
"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."
Thomas Jefferson
from Quotes of the Day
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
Ernest Hemingway
from Quotes of the Day
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Kurt Vonnegut
from Quotes of the Day
"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."
William James
from Quotes of the Day
"There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers."
John Maynard Keynes
from Quotes of the Day
"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward."
A. A. Milne
from Quotes of the Day
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
George Burns
from Quotes of the Day
"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
from Quotes of the Day
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."
Shana Alexander
from Quotes of the Day
"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."
An English Professor
from Quotes of the Day
"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
from Quotes of the Day
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
Philip K. Dick
from Quotes of the Day
"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane."
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