Quote (#566)

"Some editors are failed writers,
but so are most writers."
- T. S. Eliot

"I think Superman should go on the Larry King
show and announce that he would come back to
life if people in all 50 states wanted him to."
- Dave Barry

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy
family is unhappy in its own way."
- Leo Tolstoy

"I'm a born-again atheist."
- Gore Vidal

"Don’t be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978), to a visiting diplomat

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and
I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling

Quotaria

"What is important in life is life,
and not the result of life."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed
only to those who own one."
- AJ Liebling

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it
is necessary that at least once in your life
you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
- Rene Descartes

"You're never too old
to become younger."
- Mae West

Fate is not an eagle,
it creeps like a rat.
- Elizabeth Bowen

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction,
for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Quotaria

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if
not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
- Aldous Huxley

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly,
eat slowly, and lie about your age."
- Lucille Ball

I think we dream so we don't have to be
apart so long. If we're in each other's
dreams, we can play together all night.
- Bill Watterson

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day,
you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
- Bill Watterson

"One of the penalties for refusing to
participate in politics is that you end
up being governed by your inferiors."
- Plato

People everywhere confuse what they
read in newspapers with news.
- AJ Liebling