Showing posts with label Kin Hubbard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kin Hubbard. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotes

"Boys will be boys, and so will
a lot of middle-aged men."
- Kin Hubbard

"the only ones for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to
live, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or say commonplace things, but burn,
burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like
spides across the stars"
- Jack Kerouac


"we could never learn to be brave and patient
if there were only joy in the world."
~ Helen Keller


One has a greater sense of intellectual
degradation after an interview with a
doctor than from any human experience.
- Alice James

Hodie mihi cras tibi - Sic transit gloria mundi.
(My turn today--yours tomorrow.
Thus passes the glory of the world.)

Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit
He has left, absconded, escaped and disappeared

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Quotes

"There's no secret about success.
Did you ever know a successful man
who didn't tell you about it?"
- Kin Hubbard

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions,
without also remembering my reasons for them!"
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Always get married early in the morning.
That way, if it doesn't work out, you
haven't wasted a whole day."
- Mickey Rooney

"Adopted kids are such a pain - you have
to teach them how to look like you."
- Gilda Radner

"Health food makes me sick."
- Calvin Trillin

"The absence of alternatives
clears the mind marvelously."
- Henry Kissinger