I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~Voltaire
My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch. ~Lee Trevino
What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven. ~Friedrich Holderlin
We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree. ~Colette
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. ~Malcolm X
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. ~George Bernard Shaw, 28 August 1896
An artist, in giving a concert, should not demand an entrance fee but should ask the public to pay, just before leaving as much as they like. From the sum he would be able to judge what the world thinks of him - and we would have fewer mediocre concerts. ~Kit Coleman, Kit Coleman: Queen of Hearts
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. ~Will Rogers
That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface. ~Robert T. Pirsig
There aren't enough days in the weekend. ~Rod Schmidt
How did I know that someday - at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere - the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again? ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 20
Who hath a better friend than a cat? ~William Hardwin
It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. ~Aeschylus, Agamemnon
What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits... ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
I talk to God but the sky is empty. ~Sylvia Plath
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. ~Lord Chesterfield
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ~Edward R. Murrow
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. ~George Burns
Seagulls... slim yachts of the element. ~Robinson Jeffers
No one is listening until you fart. ~Author Unknown
A man isn't poor if he can still laugh. ~Raymond Hitchcock
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. ~Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, Etats et empires de la lune, 1656
The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday. ~Jennifer Yane