QUOTES

ALFRED ADDLER

It is easier to fight for your beliefs than live up to them.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

WOODY ALLEN

Bisexuality doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Eighty per cent of success is showing up.

I don't believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. (Crimes and Misdemeanours).

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.


Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a Quaker.

The most beautiful words are not “I love you”, but “it’s benign”.

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go, it's pretty damn good.

There's an old joke . . . two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life.

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room. Hire out: He hired himself out as a cook.

people are hired and objects and services are rented.

The tip I used to teach was the verb, hire, should be used for things which are transportable hence, you hire a car, sports equipment, a boat, a bike etc.

Rent, on the other hand, is primarily used for property, e.g.; to rent a holiday residence; "office space for rent"; and "We're living in rented accommodation".

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

Football is popular because stupidity is popular.

I committed the worst sin ever: I was not happy.

One is not what one is for that which one writes, but for that which one has read.

WILLIAM BLAKE

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

MARCOS TULLIUS CICERO
 

If you want to learn, then teach.

The force of habit is great.

It’s amazing that one fortune-teller doesn’t laugh at the sight of another.

ANTON CHEKHOV

If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry.

Although death is terrifying, knowing that you are living to eternity without ever being able to die is even more terrifying.

G.K. CHESTERTON

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

JOSEPH CONRAD

The more intelligent one is the less one suspects an absurdity.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealing with men.

RENÉ DESCARTES

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

I think, therefore I exist.

Living without philosophising is literally having your eyes closed without ever trying to open them.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

HENRY FORD

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Thinking is the hardest work there is.

DAVID HUME

Hume on Self-Interest 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. (David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, 1739)

JOHN LENNON

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

MARYLIN MONROE

Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.

MARCEL PROUST

The real discovery from a voyage consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.

BERTRAND RUSSEL

To fear love is to fear life.

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

Not everyone can boast of having a friend.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Men change feelings and demeanour with the same speed that they change their interests.

That which makes men sociable is their inability to bear solitude.

Anyone who has never owned a dog can’t know what loving and being loved mean.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.

If your morals (morality) make you dreary (sad, mise-rable), depend upon it (you can be certain), they are wrong.



There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

PAUL VALERY

The only way to preserve your culture is to put it in jeopardy.

Faithfulness lives where love is stronger than instinct.

Every thought is an exception to a general rule, which is not thinking.

A man alone is always in bad company.

Politics is the art of seeing that people do not become interested in that which concerns them.

People become heroes only when they cannot be otherwise.

Love makes us crazy, marriage cuckolds and patriotism cruel imbeciles.

God created man and, seeing he was not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion so that he would feel his solitude more.

H.G. WELLS

Everytime I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the human race.

OSCAR WILDE

Duty is what one expects from others.

Everything is dangerous. If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living.

I like talking. A lot of times I talk to myself, just to hear myself talking. Sometimes I am so clever that even I don’t understand what I said.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I am not young enough to know everything.

In this world there are only two tragedies; one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it.

Love is not blind, it is far-sighted (fig. foresighted, that foresee): the proof lies in the fact that it begins to see defects as they gradually slip away.

One should be always in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

The great events of the world take place in the brain.

The secret of happiness is to yield to temptations.

Le secret du Bonheur c’est de céder aux tentations.

Il segreto della felicità è cedere alle tentazioni.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

When the gods choose to punish us, they merely answer our prayers.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Young people nowdays assume that money is everything, and when the get older they know it.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

What is past is prologue.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Men of few words are the best men.

I hold the world but as the world, a stage where every man must play a part.

We are such stuff as dreams are made of.

If I could write the beauty of your eyes.

Listen up, uncle.

Have more than you show,

Speak less than you know,

Lend less than you owe.

Ride more than you walk,

Don’t believe everything you hear,

Don’t bet everything on one throw of the dice,

Leave behind your booze and your whore,

And stay indoors,

And you’ll end up with more

Than two tens to a twenty.