Showing posts with label Thomas Mann. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Mann. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Quotaria

"I never said most of
the things I said."
- Yogi Berra

"The stars don't look bigger,
but they do look brighter."
- Sally Ride

"Advice is like castor oil, easy enough
to give but dreadful uneasy to take."
- Josh Billings


"No man remains quite what he
was when he recognizes himself."
- Thomas Mann

"Failure is success
if we learn from it."
- Malcolm Forbes


"You know, you can't please all the people
all the time... and last night, all those
people were at my show."
- Mitch Hedberg

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

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