Showing posts with label James Branch Cabell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Branch Cabell. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotes

"When I was a boy the
Dead Sea was only sick."
- George Burns

"There is not any memory with less
satisfaction than the memory of
some temptation we resisted."
- James Branch Cabell

The universe is a pretty big space. It's
bigger than anything anyone has ever
dreamed of before. So, if it's just us,
seems like an awful waste of space, right?
- Carl Sagan


Happiness is always a by-product. It
is probably a matter of temperament,
and for anything I know it may be
glandular. But it is not something
that can be demanded from life, and
if you are not happy you had better
stop worrying about it and see what
treasures you can pluck from your
own brand of unhappiness.
- Robertson Davies

"I know nothing about sex
because I was always married."
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

"Football is a mistake. It combines
the two worst elements of American
life. Violence and committee meetings."
- George F. Will

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Quotes

I have not failed. I've just found
10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Alva Edison

The optimist proclaims that we live in
the best of all possible worlds,and the
pessimist fears this is true.
- James Branch Cabell

I wouldn't mind dying—it's the business of having
to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
— R. Geis

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell
and run away! Death really hates that!
- Matt Frewer, as Dr. Mike Stratford in "Doctor, Doctor"

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose,
but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll
be much harder to detect.
- George Carlin


No man's life, liberty or property are
safe while the legislature is in session.
- Judge Gideon J. Tucker