elie wiesel quotes

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



At Christmas, all roads lead home. ~Marjorie Holmes



Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont



John Adams: "It's like having your cake and eating it too."



Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ~Dorothea Lange



DOS computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form. ~Author Unknown



"If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 5



America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality. ~Adlai Stevenson



We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. ~Henry David Thoreau



No man is free who is not a master of himself. ~Epictetus



All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers. ~Beatrice Cook, Till Fish Do Us Part, 1949



The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson



When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire? ~Zsa Zsa Gabor



A problem well stated is a problem half solved. ~Charles F. Kettering



Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid,... thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate. ~Colley Cibber, Lady's Last Stake



When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez



No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ~Henry Adams



Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. ~Redd Foxx