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It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.
I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.
Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.
People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.
I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.
Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!
Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.
It's easier to be cynical and edgy and tough rather than overly emotional.
People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs.
It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke.
A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo.
I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring.
What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior.
There's gonna be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning.
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.
You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.
With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.
This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.
you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.