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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.
The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles
Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.
It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.
Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception.
The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.
Only a loser finds it impossible to accept a temporary setback. A winner asks why.
Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
As a political party, the Libertarians have always been more party than political.
One point has already been proven. Everything that happened once can happen again.
I devoted myself simply to being a solitary person entrusted with a specific task.
Our minds are a lot like the sea...you wake up some days and its rough and stormy.
At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.
The worst environmental decision you can make as a human being is to have 14 kids.
The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.
Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.
Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.
Remove failure as an option and your chances for success become infinitely better.
I have a really high bar for being angry. Like, it doesn't even happen every year.
The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.
One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.
To drink is to warm the heart; without dispelling reason, it gives reason to life.
There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.
Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?
Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.
There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.
I make sure to eat lots of kale, broccoli, blueberries, strawberries, and spinach.
I'm well rewarded for a job I massively enjoy doing. I think I'm paid very fairly.
Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay the mortgage.
My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.
You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail.
What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.
Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it.
I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.
I'm not going to whine or get depressed. Who's going to feel sorry for me? Nobody.