A Bank of Quotes
"If a man indulges himself in murder, very
soon he comes to think Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Timothy Leary "Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." Harriet Van Horne A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man. Charles Dickens I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. Jonathan Swift “No longer then on fortune time rely, improve the present and prepare to die.” - Urana Sulliff “A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That's what I like about coincidence.” - Vladimir Nabokov “History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” - Abba Eban “A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.” - Edmond de Goncourt
“As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.” Confucius Say: “Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.” “One way street? Oh, well that's okay. I'm only going one way!” - Mr. Ed “The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.” - Julia Child What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce. Mark Twain The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche “What, me worry.” - A.E. Newman Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women? Virginia Woolf The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. Robert Bloch It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Leo Tolstoy “Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.” - Aldous Huxley I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling "Screw you buddy. And I don't like Tolstoy either." - Ernest Hemingway - Tiger Woods “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” - Aldous Huxley Abraham Lincoln
“You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.” Sidney Sheldon
“Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.” Nikita Khrushchev “Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.” Adam Smith “Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for years.” Mae West “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.” Joan D. Vinge
Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him. Walker Percy “Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” Martin Luther King Jr. “It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” -James Madison “A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.” - Lana Turner “My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.” Tallulah Bankhead “I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.” Mother Jones Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all. John Maynard Keynes “If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do...” Jerome K. Jerome “When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.” Neal Stephenson “Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.” - Humphrey Bogart (or C. S. Forester, or John Huston) “In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.” “Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.” W. Somerset Maugham Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. John Kenneth Galbraith
“If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?” Steven Wright
“Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?” Jim Bouton “We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.” George Bernard Shaw
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. Rudyard Kipling “Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.” Lawrence Ferlinghetti “The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.” Arthur Schopenhauer
“I was 32 when I started cooking. Up until then, I just ate.” - Julia Child
“The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.” Samuel Gompers “Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.” Gloria Steinem
“All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.” Red Skelton "Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." H. L. Mencken “It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood.” Mr. Rogers “I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.” Dick Gregory “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” Jonathan Swift “There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.” -Terry Pratchett “The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.” Terry Pratchett “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” Blaise Pascal “Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.” Sinclair Lewis “I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.” -Terry Pratchett “Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.” Joseph Heller If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. “The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.” Colin Wilson Thomas Wolfe “We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.” George Steiner Will Rogers “It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.” -Terry Pratchett "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage." H. L. Mencken Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. -Terry Pratchett “Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.” Tacitus “Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.” George Orwell John Ruskin
“Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.” Jean-Paul Marat “Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.” “The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible” "I'm a lifelong over-thinking, very cautious, mostly-good girl, who thinks for herself and does what she wants, in an over-thinking and very cautious way." - Anonymous
“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.” Thor Heyerdahl "When you make your peace with authority, you become authority." - Jim Morrison “If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Prince Philip I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them. Mario Puzo “Do you know they’re now producing eating dogs for anorexics?” Prince Philip (to a blind woman outside Exeter Cathedral in 2002) There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches. Will Rogers “If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.” Katharine Hepburn “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” Aldous Huxley
“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.” Ezra Pound “It’s a pleasant change to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people” – to Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner. “Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.” Jonathan Swift “There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.” Plato “If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed” – Prince Philip (to British students in China, during the 1986 state visit) “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.” Alan Watts “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.” -Terry Pratchett
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx “Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.” Anne Rice “One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.” – Friedrich Nietzsche “It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.” Zelda Fitzgerald “Do you still throw spears at each other?” – Prince Philip (in Australia in 2002, talking to a successful Aboriginal entrepreneur) “A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.” Herb Caen “The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.” -Benjamin Franklin “You heard about the Jew who had a dog? Either he wasn’t a Jew, or it wasn’t a dog.” - Shulem Shtisel “However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” George Washington
"We don't have a problem with bellowing, aggressive lunatics if we can't hear them. And, with the pandemic, if we don't think there'll be an opportunity to shoot someone, we don't bother responding to citizen calls." S.M. Police Dept. “You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.” Nikos Kazantzakis “If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.” Lysander Spooner Vincent Price
“... For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.” Herman Melville "It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings." Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. Saint Augustine “When women go wrong, men go right after them.” Mae West Frank O'Hara “Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.” Albert Schweitzer
“You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.” Hunter S. Thompson “I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.” Donald Miller
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?” Prince Philip (to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, during a 1995 walkabout) “A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.” Frank Zappa “A man who limits his interests, limits his life.” Vincent Price From the "Quote of the Year" dept.: "I would rather have a cup of tea than sex." Boy George “The Space Shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills.” Dana Rohrabacher “Never trust a man who reads only one book.” Arturo Perez-Reverte “You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours and in the end it will be you who tire of it.” Ho Chi Minh “Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.” Theodore Roosevelt George Berkeley A world without men would consists of a bunch of fat, happy women with no crime.” Jennifer Love Hewitt Prince Philip (speaking to singer Tom Jones after his 1969 Royal Variety Performance. “When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.” Marcus Tullius Cicero “ What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.” Terry Pratchett “I've been in more laps than a napkin.” Mae West “If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she’s not interested.” Prince Philip (after being asked about Princess Anne)
“The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.” Simone Weil “Christianity is the best way to cure gayness? just get on your knees, take a swig of wine, and accept the body of a man into your mouth.” Stephen Colbert “Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.” Voltaire “It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?” -Terry Pratchett “The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.” Charles de Gaulle “I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.” Annie Oakley “I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.” Malcolm X Upton Sinclair “Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.” Bill Peterson “Do you have a pair of knickers made out of this?” Prince Phili;, pointing to some tartan (to Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie at a papal reception in Edinburgh in September 2010) “My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.” George Santayana The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.” Rutherford B. Hayes As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see. Julius Caesar The graveyards are full of indispensable men.” Charles de Gaulle Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.” James Thurber
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.” -Terry Pratchett We didn’t have counselors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking ‘Are you all right? Are you sure you don’t have a ghastly problem?’ You just got on with it” Prince Philip, musing about the Second World War, commenting on modern stress counseling for servicemen in 1995. The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.” Glen Cook If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.” Ezra Pound Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” Bertrand Russell Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.” Pythagoras The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.” Robert Benchley A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.” Rudyard Kipling A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.” Alexis de Tocqueville When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?” Don Marquis He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.” Joseph Heller
It looks as if it was put in by an Indian.” - Prince Philip (Pointing at an old-fashioned fusebox in a factory near Edinburgh in 1999.)
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.” Cyrano de Bergerac |
