Quotes

"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and
privilege of the learned. A widely- read
man never quotes accurately, for the rather
obvious reason that he has read too widely."
- Hesketh Pearson

"A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought,
and then be welcomed only for some propriety of
felicity justifying the intrusion."
- Robert Chapman

All love that has not friendship for its base,
is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004

"God, I can push the grass apart
and lay my finger on Thy heart."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"A little government and a little luck
are necessary in life, but only a fool
trusts either of them."
- P. J. O'Rourke

"When you encounter seemingly good
advice that contradicts other seemingly
good advice, ignore them both."
- Al Franken

Quotaria

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but
a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
- G. K. Chesterton

"Fish is the only food that is considered
spoiled once it smells like what it is."
- P. J. O'Rourke

"The future is here. It's just
not widely distributed yet."
- William Gibson

"The denunciation of the young is a necessary
part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly
assists in the circulation of their blood."
- Logan Pearsall Smith

"I believe that banking institutions are more
dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. "
- Thomas Jefferson

Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle

Quotes

"If government were a product,
selling it would be illegal."
- P. J. O'Rourke

"I'd never been in play long enough for
the flowers to die in the dressing room."
- Mercedes McCambridge

"I do not fear computers.
I fear the lack of them."
- Isaac Asimov

"Nature knows no pause in progress and development,
and attaches her curse on all inaction."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"All art is but imitation of nature."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"A hen is only an egg's way
of making another egg."
- Samuel Butler

Quotes - P. J. O'Rourke

"Never fight an inanimate object."
- P.J. O'Rourke

"Never wear anything that panics the cat."
- P. J. O'Rourke

Always read stuff that will make you look
good if you die in the middle of it.
- P. J. O'Rourke

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays
or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when
their cheery effect is needed.
- P. J. O'Rourke

"Very little is known of the Canadian
country since it is rarely visited by
anyone but the Queen and illiterate
sport fishermen."
- P. J. O'Rourke

"You can't get rid of poverty
by giving people money."
- P. J. O'Rourke

Quotaria

"Leadership cannot really be
taught. It can only be learned."
- Harold S. Geneen

"The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write
much better with a word processor.', I replied,
'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'"
- Roy Blount Jr.

"The mystery of government is
not how Washington works but
how to make it stop."
- P. J. O'Rourke

"The very first law in advertising is to
avoid the concrete promise and cultivate
the delightfully vague."
- Bill Cosby

"Television is for appearing
on - not for looking at."
- Noel Coward

"I hope that while so many people are
out smelling the flowers, someone is
taking the time to plant some."
- Herbert Rappaport

Quotaria

"A writer is a person for whom writing is
more difficult than it is for other people."
- Thomas Mann

"Cynics regarded everybody as equally
corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody
as equally corrupt, except themselves."
- Robert Anton Wilson

"Cynically speaking, one could say that it
is true to life to be cynical about it."
- Paul Tillich

"Democracy is a process by which
people are free to choose the man
who will get the blame."
- Laurence J. Peter

"Passion is the mob of the man, that
commits a riot upon his reason."
- William Penn

"Giving money and power to government is like
giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
- P. J. O'Rourke

Quotaria

"Life doesn't imitate art, it
imitates bad television."
- Woody Allen

A hat should be taken off when you greet a
lady and left off for the rest of your life.
Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
- PJ O'Rourke

There's so much pollution in the air now that
if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place
to put it all.
- Robert Orben

"If opportunity doesn't
knock, build a door."
- Milton Berle

"We are not makers of history.
We are made by history."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Batman: Commissioner Gordon?
Dr. Chase Meridian: He's at home. I sent the signal.
Batman: What's wrong?
Dr. Chase Meridian: Last night, at the bank, I noticed something about Two-Face. His coin. It's his Achilles' heel. It can be exploited.
Batman: I know. You called me here for this? The Batsignal is not a beeper.
Dr. Chase Meridian: Well I wish I could say that my interest in you was... purely professional.
Batman: You trying to get under my cape, doctor?
Dr. Chase Meridian: A girl can't live by psychoses alone.
Batman: It's the car, right? Chicks love the car.
Dr. Chase Meridian: What is it about the wrong kind of man? In grade school it was guys with earrings. College, motorcycles, leather jackets. Now, *oh*, black rubber.
Batman: Try firemen, less to take off.
Dr. Chase Meridian: I don't mind the work. Pity I can't see behind the mask.
Batman: We all wear masks.
Dr. Chase Meridian: My life's an open book. You read?
Batman: I don't blend in at a family picnic.
Dr. Chase Meridian: Oh, we could give it a try. I'll bring the wine, you bring your scarred psyche.
Batman: Direct aren't you?
Dr. Chase Meridian: You like strong women. I've done my homework. Or do I need skin-tight vinyl and a whip?
Batman: I haven't had that much luck with women.
Dr. Chase Meridian: Maybe you just haven't met the right woman.
- Batman Forever