Quote (#572)

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."
- Benjamin Disraeli

The free-lance writer is a man who is
paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
- Robert Benchley

"I can't bring myself to say, 'Well,
I guess I'll be toddling along.' It
isn't that I can't toddle. It's just
that I can't guess I'll toddle."
- Robert Benchley

Tell us your phobias and we will
tell you what you are afraid of.
- Robert Benchley

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is
the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
- Robert Benchley

Why don't you get out of that wet
coat and into a dry martini?
- Robert Benchley

Quotes

"Silence is more eloquent than words."
- Thomas Carlyle

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience
of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"One is very crazy when in love."
- Sigmund Freud

"I wonder what fool it was
that first invented kissing."
- Jonathan Swift

"A man's kiss is
his signature."
- Mae West

"Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope."
- Josh Billings

Quotaria

"There's no present. There's only the
immediate future and the recent past."
- George Carlin

"My idea of an agreeable person
is a person who agrees with me."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"No man is exempt from saying silly things;
the mischief is to say them deliberately."
- Michel de Montaigne

"Last week, I went to Philadelphia,
but it was closed."
- W. C. Fields

"Education is what survives when what
has been learned has been forgotten."
- B. F. Skinner

"Success is a journey,
not a destination."
- Ben Sweetland

Quotaria

Amor vincit omnia
Love conquers all.
- Virgil

You get fifteen democrats in a room,
and you get twenty opinions.
- Senator Patrick Leahy

Great minds have purposes.
Others have wishes.
- Washington Irving

What seems impossible one minute becomes,
through faith, possible the next.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Life shrinks or expands in
proportion to one's courage
- Anais Nin

The secret of success is
constantcy of purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Quotes

Things turn out best for people who make
the best of the way things turn out.
- John Wooden

Education is not the filling of a
pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- W.B. Yeats

My hope for my children must be that
they respond to the still, small
voice of God in their own hearts.
- Andrew Young

I have an existential map. It has
'You are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright

When men are pure, laws are useless;
when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
- Benjamin Disraeli

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the
two always go together. When people ask your age,
he said, always say seventeen and insane.
- Ray Bradbury

Quotes

"I'm a great housekeeper. I get
divorced. I keep the house."
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

"Be truthful, nature
only sides with truth."
- Adolf Loos

"Not admiring a mistake
is a bigger mistake."
- Robert Half

"If you hate a person, you hate something
in him that is part of yourself. What isn't
part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
- Hermann Hesse

"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience
of ages, may be preserved by quotation."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"Because things are the way they are,
things will not stay the way they are."
- Bertolt Brecht

Quotes - Oneliner

"We are what we believe we are."
- C. S. Lewis

"Justice is truth in action."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"Sound is the vocabulary of nature."
- Pierre Schaeffer

"I could prove God statistically."
- George Gallup

I think it would be a good idea.
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Fiction is after truth."
- Flannery O'Connor

Quotaria

Those who would give up essential liberty to
purchase a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered
America, that he ever mentioned it.
- Margot Asquith

How much easier it is to be
critical than to be correct.
- Benjamin Disraeli

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one
way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after
happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no
reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
- Edith Wharton

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings,
look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
- Shelley

"When I meet a man I ask myself,
'Is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?'"
- Rita Rudner

Quotes

One day I sat thinking almost in despair; a hand
fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly:
"Cheer up, things could get worse." So I cheered up,
and sure enough, things got worse.
- James Hagerty

"There are three kinds of lies:
lies, damn lies, and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli

Do not trust the cheering, for those
very persons would shout as much if
you and I were going to be hanged.
- Oliver Cromwell

A lot of people like snow. I find it to
be an unnecessary freezing of water.
- Carl Reiner

Traffic signals in New York
are just rough guidelines.
- David Letterman

The only rules comedy can tolerate
are those of taste, and the only
limitations those of libel.
- James Thurber