Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.
The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?
Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.
It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.
I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.
Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries.
There are 43,000 minutes in a month - can't you give me five?
. . . don't rewrite unless you know what you're trying to do.
The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.
I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.
All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.
In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary
Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.
The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?
All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.
Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.