quotes

i posted this in Multiply. but since not everyone has it, here are some quotes to enjoy.

-we walk alone in the world. friends such as we desire, are dreams and fable - ralph waldo emerson

-the grape gets its purple tinge by looking at another grape - juvenal

-patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel - samuel johnson

-so this gentlemen said a girl without brains ought to do something with them besides think - anita loos

-a bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it - bob hope

-i like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live tan other things - willa cather

-thanks to God, i am still an atheist - luis bunuel

-now, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry - gloria steinem

-i would die for my country but i would never let my country die for me - neil kinnock

-angels can fly because they take themselves lightly - g.k. chesterton

-there are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink - booth tarkington

-all books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words - amy lowell

-some things can't be ravished. you can't ravish a tin of sardines - d. h. lawrence

-when you see what some girls marry, you realise how much they must hate to work for a living
- helen rowland

-a sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delights - alcott-scarlett

-... i wish i could care what you do or where you go but i can't... my dear, i don't give a damn - margaret mitchell

-on the plus side, death is one fo the few things that can be done as easily lying down - woody allen

-i paint object as i think them, not as i see them - pablo picasso

-money couldn't buy friends but you got a better class of enemy - spike milligan

-never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway - elbert hubbard

-a thick skin is a gift from God - konrad adenauer

-when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal - richard nixon

-the main fault of all books is that they are too long - vauvenargues

-spread the table and contention will cease - ben sira

-chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit - henry brooks adams

-in violence we forgot who we are - mary mccarthy

-love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe - mary tully

-self-love seems so often unrequited - anothony powell

-practical politics consists in ignoring facts - henry brooks adams

-everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else - will rogers

-all you need in this life is igorance and confidence; then success is sure - mark twain

-bigamy is having one husband too many. monogamy is the same - erica jong

-to fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead - bertrand russell

-a camel is a horse designed by a committee

-politics is the second oldest profession. i've come to realise it bears a very close resemblance to the first - ronald regan

-cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth - lillian hellman

-to err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer

-i don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language i don't understand - edwards appleton

-nobody loves a fairy when she's forty - arthur w.d. henley

-there is more difference within the sexes than between them - ivy compton-burnett

-the four stages of man are infacy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence - art linkletter

-better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self - cyril connolly

-dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire - george bernard shaw

-it's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes - joseph conrad

-i never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back - zsa zsa gabor

-first things first, second things never - shirley conran

-i have noticed that people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them - e. v. lucas

-we want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them - dora russell

-few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectonate mother - w. somerset maugham

-an autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing - quentin crisp

-cynic:a blackguard whose faulty vision see things as they are, not as they ought to be - ambrose bierce

-this last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason - t. s. eliot

-history is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen - enoch powell

-being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle - edna ferber

-an exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper - khalil gibran

-let us be thankful for the fools. but for them the rest of us could not succeed - mark twain

-peace: in international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting - ambrose bierce

-education is what surives when what has been learned has been forgotten - b. f. skinner

-the quality of debate in the House of Lords is pretty high - good evidence of life after death - donald soper

-it takes a lot of time to be a genuis, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing - gertrude stein

-saint: a dead sinner revised and edited - ambrose bierce

-my life will be sour grapes and ashes without you - daisy ashford

-from politics it was an easy step to silence - jane austen

-children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter - francis bacon

-fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat- elizabeth bowen

-force is not a remedy - john mright

-i do not mind lying, but i hate inaccuracy - samuel butler

-the dodo never had a chance. he seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for - will cuppy

-evil triumphs when good man do nothing

-man fear time, yet time fear the pyramids