Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Sometimes it’s the complication, which just lies in our minds
Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.
It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you.
I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory.
A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.
You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.
Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
Many people who pretend to be very busy have the least to do.
Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.
If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.
I don't believe all rich people are selfless philanthropists.
You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.
It got up to 94 degrees today – that's pretty good at my age.
Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable.
The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.
Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.
Square meals, not adventurous ones, are what you should seek.
Tomorrow could not get better if one failed to survive today.
Both my nine- and seven-year-olds have a stockbroker already.
I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.
In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.
You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.
Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.
We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.
Father's Day is like Mother's Day except the gift is cheaper.
Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.
Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)
Our mental attitude is the x factor that determines our fate.
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.