QUOTE WORLD

* The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.—Gabriel Zaid

* All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.—Bobby Knight

* Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.—Charles Caleb Colton

* An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.—Charles de Montesquieu

* Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.—Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)

* Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.—Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989)

* You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.—Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

* I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.—Woody Allen

* From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend on reading it.—Groucho Marx

* One does not find happiness through the pursuit of achievement, one finds achievement through the pursuit of happiness.—Theki Rashir

* Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.—Groucho Marx

* To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.—Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

* Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.—Kurt Vonnegut

* It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.—Isabel Colegate

* I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.—Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

* The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.—Herbert Sebastian Agar (1897-1980)

* It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear.—Henry David Thoreau (1817-62)

* It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.—Arthur Conan Doyle (1856-1930)

* Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.;

* Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.;

* Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.;

* The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.;

* People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.—Bill Watterson

* Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.—Sir Thomas Beecham

* The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.—Nathaniel Borenstein

* I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.—Samuel Goldwyn

* There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.—Bertrand Russell

* I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.—Oscar Levant

* America - A Merciless Entropy Running Into Cosmic Annihilation — Theki Rashir

* All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.—Galileo Galilei

* Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.—Dorothy Parker

* When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.—Al Franken

* An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.—Simon Cameron

* Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.—H. L. Mencken

* Exit, pursued by a bear.—William Shakespeare

* What, you mean I have to rewrite The French Revolution because somebody threw my manuscript in the fire?—Thomas Carlyle

* It suddenly occurred to me that the only true bottomless pit is the human stomach.—Theki Rashir

* If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.—George Bernard Shaw

* A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.—Bertrand Russell

* The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.—Elizabeth Taylor

* Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.—Dorothy Parker

* The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.—Horace Walpole

* You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.—John Ciardi

* Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.—Sam Brown

* A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.—Bob Hope

* Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it but they labor in it because they excel.—William Hazlitt

* You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.—Jack London

* The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.—Bret Harte

* If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?—Abraham Lincoln

* Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.— Fran Lebowitz

* Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!— Tommy Smothers

* When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.— Lord Falkland

* As I was walking up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd stay away.— Hughes Mearns

* The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.— Henry Stimson

* Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.— Oscar Levant

* I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.— Oscar Wilde

* A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.— Sir Thomas Beecham

* Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.”—Tony Blair, speech as newly elected Prime Minister, 1997.

* A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people—Peter McArthur

* Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip—Will_Rogers

* After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted—De la Lastra's Corollary

* Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority—Thomas H. Huxley

* A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times—Oliver Wendell Holmes

* Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night—Philip K. Dick

* It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear—Douglas Adams

* The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essense of inhumanity—George Bernard Shaw

* It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.—Eugene McCarthy

* Life is in the main a constant process of expectation—mostly of others by others.—Keith Harris

* Curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid git—John Lennon

* A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.—Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81) German dramatist. Emilia Galotti, IV:7

* Fish fuck in it.—W. C. Fields' reason for not drinking water.

* Those who don't like those who like to know have something to hide.—Theki Rashir

* He might have been a wrong'un but he was a writer.—Betsy Ann Cook speaking about Keith Harris

* Rejection slips are like colds; everybody gets them.—Norman Hidden

* If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you will be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life.—Abraham Maslow

* The truth is the truth as we perceive it but that truth to another may be a lie.—Theki Rashir

* It it doesn't get worse it will get better. If it doesn't get better it will get worse. If it does neither it will stay the same.—Theki Rashir

* Those who are satisfied do not understand freedom.—Theki Rashir

* At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.—Aldous Huxley

* If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.—George Aiken

* We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.—George Orwell

* The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.—George Orwell

* An evil exists that threatens every man,woman, and child of this great country. We must take steps to insure our domestic security and protect our Homeland.—Adolf Hitler (1933)

* Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power.—Benito Mussolini

* Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your Honor. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.—Mark Twain

* I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.—Thomas Jefferson

* The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.—Albert Camus (1913-1960)

* Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that The State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.—Arthur Miller–playwright

* No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.—Salvador de Madariaga - (1886-1978 ), Spanish writer, diplomat, and historian, noted for his service at the League of Nations

* People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent ... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.—John Fitzgerald Kennedy

* Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.—Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March 1785 (B 11:16-7)

* If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.—Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849

* Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.—Mark Twain

* We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal. and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was 'illegal'.—Martin Luther King, Jr., 'Letter from Birmingham Jail,' Why We Can't Wait',1963

* If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.—Bishop Desmond Tutu

* Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor. - infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.—Wendell Phillips

* The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.—Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) Source: Ponkapog Papers, 1903

* Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.—Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) US Senator (R-Arizona) Source: Senator Goldwater's Acceptance Speech at the Republican National Convention, 1964

* When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.—William Blake

* No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority:—Thomas Jefferson: American 3rd US President (1801-09).

* If a government supports the use of force, weapons, violence as a method of control and dominance, this models and gives license to the same kind of behavior at home:—V-Day Founder/Artistic Director Eve Ensler.

* Justify yourself to no-one but God:—Theki Rashir

* Listen to no man above God:—Theki Rashir

* The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.—Harold Pinter

* I am not in the world to sacrifice my time to satisfy someone else’s greed. I am here to live my own life, free of the encumbrance of those with selfish aim:—Theki Rashir

* Just because its the way it: is doesn't mean its right.—Theki Rashir

* If you are not for the revolution you are not for freedom—you are for your own status quo above others.—Theki Rashir

* E=[MC]2=Life x Death—Theki Rashir

* Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.—Oscar Wilde

* In an equal world all are entitled to free expression of opinion.—Theki Rashir

* The purpose of life is to learn the purpose of life.anon

* In Heaven the Engineers are German, the Police are English and the Chefs are French. In Hell The Engineers are French, The Police are German and the Chefs are English..Unknown

* It is better to regard others as significant than to pursue self-idolatry.—Theki Rashir

* If you want someone to do wrong for you, first convince them that they are doing right.—Theki Rashir

* You can't dominate me, you can't control me, you can't defeat me, all you can do is enjoy me.—Theki Rashir

* Social laws exist for one purpose alone: protecting the interests of the wealthy elite.—Theki Rashir

* People who take without giving know nothing of life.—Theki Rashir

* Those who feel threatened by the truth deny themselves the opportunity of learning..—Theki Rashir

* The first thing I thought about this morning was that I survived another night without being eaten by dogs.—Theki Rashir

* What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left—Oscar Levant

* I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.—Groucho Marx

* The way to wisdom is the path of a fool—Theki Rashir

* God nuked Sodom and Gomorrah and also said I am a jealous God—Theki Rashir

* Those in power and privilege will go to any lengths to prevent or silence those who in any way, small or large, threatens to expose the nature of their continued rule—Roy Ratcliffe, commenting on the Julian Assange case


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