Showing posts with label Christopher Morley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christopher Morley. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Quotaria

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think,
every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every
day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.
It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
- Christopher Morley

It seems like once people grow up,
they have no idea what's cool.
- Bill Watterson

"Play: Work that you enjoy
doing for nothing."
- Evan Esar


"If you make people think they're thinking,
they'll love you; But if you really make
them think, they'll hate you."
- Don Marquis

"We learn something every day,
and lots of times it's that what
we learned the day before was wrong."
- Bill Vaughan


"Politics is the skilled
use of blunt objects."
- Lester B. Pearson

Quotaria

It seems like once people grow up,
they have no idea what's cool.
- Bill Watterson


Cherish all your happy moments: they
make a fine cushion for old age.
- Christopher Morley

I think it's the duty of the comedian
to find out where the line is drawn
and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin

Special-interest publications should realize that if
they are attracting enough advertising and readers
to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
- Fran Lebowitz

He who praises you for what you lack
wishes to take from you what you have.
- Don Juan Manuel


"The significance of man is that he
is insignificant and is aware of it."
- Carl Becker

Friday, April 17, 2009

Quotaria

"If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't
know what a millionaire looked like."
- Phyllis Diller

"When you are through
changing, you are through."
- Bruce Barton


"America is a mistake,
a giant mistake."
- Sigmund Freud

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and
theories for which we have no use.
- William James

The surest sign that intelligent life
exists elsewhere in the universe is
that it has never tried to contact us.
- Bill Watterson


"My theology, briefly, is that the
universe was dictated but not signed."
- Christopher Morley

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Quotes

"Spring is when you feel
like whistling even with
a shoe full of slush."
- Doug Larson

"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is
that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later;
in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."
- Charles Bukowski

"Advice is what we ask for when we already
know the answer but wish we didn't."
- Erica Jong

"It is impossible to imagine
Goethe or Beethoven being
good at billiards or golf."
- H. L. Mencken

Weekends don't count unless you spend them
doing something completely pointless.
- Bill Watterson

Life is a foreign language;
all men mispronounce it.
- Christopher Morley

Quotes

"The least movement is of importance to all nature.
The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
- Blaise Pascal

"Nothing will work unless you do."
- Maya Angelou


"A wide screen just makes
a bad film twice as bad."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"I don't know the key to success, but the key
to failure is trying to please everybody."
- Bill Cosby

No one appreciates the very special genius
of your conversations as a dog does.
- Christopher Morley


Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints a
man should catch young and have done with, for when
it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
- PG Wodehouse

Quotaria

"Forgiveness is the key
to action and freedom."
- Hannah Arendt

"History is a gallery of pictures in which
there are few originals and many copies."
- Alexis de Tocqueville


"There is only one success - to be able
to spend your life in your own way."
- Christopher Morley

"When we try to pick out anything
by itself, we find it hitched to
everything else in the universe."
- John Muir

"Nature is the master of talents;
genius is the master of nature."
- J. G. Holland


"In order to make an apple pie from scratch,
you must first create the universe."
- Carl Sagan