George Carlin
“I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.”
Year: 2009
Henry Kissinger
“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.”
Niels Bohr
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
Jackie Mason
“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.”
H. R. Schaffer
“There is?nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.”
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
“I just realized that there’s going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right …
Bell Hooks
“The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom…”
Richard M. Nixon
“Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”
Kathy Sierra
“In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.”
Raymond Chandler
“At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.”
Leonard Bernstein
“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.”
Thomas Sowell
“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth–anonymously and posthumously.”
George Washington
“It’s wonderful what we can do if we’re always doing.”
David Lloyd George
“Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines – so they should go as far as …
Scott Westerfeld
“We don’t always get to choose what we love.”
Stuart’s Law of Retroaction
“It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.”
Hugh White
“When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes …
Hesketh Pearson
“Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he …
Robert Chapman
“A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.”
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, …
Judith Martin
“We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.”
Moliere
“There’s no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.”
George Orwell
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”