Quotes (#488)

In the end, we will remember
not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The uncertainties of the present
always give way to the enchanted
possibilities of the future.
- Kirkland

A true friend is the most precious of
all possessions and the one we take
the least thought about acquiring.
- La Rochefoucauld

"Nobody has ever measured, not even
poets, how much the heart can hold."
- Zelda Fitzgerald

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness,
a tender look which becomes a habit."
- Peter Ustinov

"An empty canvas is full."
- Robert Rauschenberg

Quotaria

I object to violence because when it appears
to do good, the good is only temporary; the
evil it does is permanent.
- Mahatma Gandhi

"The ability to delude yourself may
be an important survival tool."
- Jane Wagner

"Memory is more indelible than ink."
- Anita Loos

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself,
it is time for others to laugh at him."
- Thomas Szasz

"I don't deserve this award, but I have
arthritis and I don't deserve that either."
- Jack Benny

"In America, through pressure of conformity, there
is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."
- Peter Ustinov

Quotaria

Words are only painted fire;
a book is the fire itself.
- Mark Twain

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute
power tends to corrupt absolutely
- Lord Acton

If the world should blow itself up,
the last audible voice would be that
of an expert saying it can't be done.
- Peter Ustinov

"My work is a game, a
very serious game."
- M. C. Escher

"Great part of being a grownup,
you never have to do anything."
- Peter Blake

"Listening, not imitation, may be
the sincerest form of flattery."
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Quotes

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to
be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
- Peter Ustinov

The quickest way to a man's heart really is
through his stomach, because then you don't
have to chop through that pesky rib cage.
- J. Jacques

The trouble with jogging is that
the ice falls out of your glass.
- Martin Mull

Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark
overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
- George Carlin

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it
is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
- Quentin Crisp

The best car safety device is a
rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
- Dudley Moore

Quotaria

"Not even computers will replace committees,
because committees buy computers."
- Edward Shepherd Mead

"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty
being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What
do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
- Jean Kerr

"As I was walking up the stair /
I met a man who wasn't there. /
He wasn't there again today. /
I wish, I wish he'd stay away."
- Hughes Mearns

"Never raise your hand to
your children - it leaves
your midsection unprotected."
- Robert Orben

"I'm convinced there's a small room in
the attic of the Foreign Office where
future diplomats are taught to stammer."
- Peter Ustinov

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns
it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of
murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having
come by their ignorance the hard way."
- Kurt Vonnegut

Quotaria

"If you believe everything
you read, better not read."
- Japanese Proverb

"Critics search for ages for the wrong
word, which, to give them credit, they
eventually find."
- Peter Ustinov

"What is youth except a man or a woman
before it is ready or fit to be seen?"
- Evelyn Waugh

"So much of what we call management consists
in making it difficult for people to work."
- Peter Drucker

"Never keep up with the Joneses.
Drag them down to your level."
- Quentin Crisp

"The whole world is in revolt.
Soon there will be only five
Kings left--the King of England,
the King of Spades, The King of
Clubs, the King of Hearts, and
the King of Diamonds."
- King Farouk of Egypt