Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.
At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.
Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
As soon as the people fix one Shame of the World, another turns up.
Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.
Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.
Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
I always want to be in love, always. It's like being a tuning fork.
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.
In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.
The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.
When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.
The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.
To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.
A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.
Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!
Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.
...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best.
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.
The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.
Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.
True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.
The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.
If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.
Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.
You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.
Not everyone who spoke you friendly was really your friend." - Arya
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.