Quote (#566)

"Some editors are failed writers,
but so are most writers."
- T. S. Eliot

"I think Superman should go on the Larry King
show and announce that he would come back to
life if people in all 50 states wanted him to."
- Dave Barry

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy
family is unhappy in its own way."
- Leo Tolstoy

"I'm a born-again atheist."
- Gore Vidal

"Don’t be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978), to a visiting diplomat

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and
I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling

Quote (#500)

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach --- waiting for a gift from the sea.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Not what we give, but what we share; for the
gift without the giver is bare. Who gives of
himself and his alms feeds three --- himself,
his hungering neighbor and me.
- James Russell Lowell

"Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is
so honest that God can't help but smile on it."
- Josh Billings

"Marriage is a great institution, but
I'm not ready for an institution."
- Mae West

"Genuine poetry can communicate
before it is understood."
- T. S. Eliot

Quotaria - Favorites

The only thing necessary for the triumph
of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

"An investment in knowledge always
pays the best interest."
- Benjamin Franklin

"The scientific name for an animal that doesn't
either run from or fight its enemies is lunch."
- Michael Friedman

"Colors are the smiles of nature."
- Leigh Hunt

Humankind cannot stand
very much reality.
- TS Eliot

"Bad weather always looks
worse through a window."
- Tom Lehrer

Quotes

Where does one go from a world of insanity?
Somewhere on the other side of despair.
- T. S. Eliot

‘The "silly question" is the first intimation
of some totally new development.’
- Alfred North Whitehead

‘There are no foolish questions, and no man has
become a fool until he stops asking questions.’
- Charles P. Steinmetz

For most men life is a search for
the proper manila envelope in which
to get themselves filed.
- Clifton Fadiman

Eternity is a mere moment,
just long enough for a joke.
- Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

Home computers are being called upon to perform
many new functions, including the consumption of
homework formerly eaten by the dog.
- Doug Larson