Robert Chapman
“A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.”
Month: February 2009
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“…when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Muriel Fox
“Women and men have to fight together to change society – and both will benefit… Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
Art Spander
“The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.”
Laurie Anderson
“When love is gone, there’s always justice./ And when justice is gone, there’s always force./ And when force is gone, there’s always Mom./ Hi, Mom!”
Jack Handey
“I hope that when I die, people say about me, ‘Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'”
Emerson Pugh
“If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.”
Mickey Rooney
“Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted a whole day.”
Whoopi Goldberg
“I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.”
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.”
Cesare Pavese
“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
Ausonius
“Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.”
Philip Guedalla
“Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.”
A. Whitney Brown
“I’m not a vegetarian because I love animals. I’m a vegetarian because I hate plants.”
Randall Jarrell
“But be, as you have been, my happiness…”
Julian Jaynes
“Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.”
Henry Miller
“Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, …