Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham Greene
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
Those who marry God can become domesticated too -- it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and Ave Maria like dearest is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves -- it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.
We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed -- that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.
Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.
You have to make it happen.
Joe Greene
We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
Nathanael Greene
For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
Robert Greene
For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.
Albert Greenfield
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
Meg Greenfield
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin Franklin
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
The gift/curse of the visionary is that they can see the future as clearly as they can see the present.
Scott Dunlap
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
Sivananda
Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.
Dean Williams
No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
Groucho Marx
Things don't have to change the world to be important.
Steve Jobs
Success has always been a great liar.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings
Politics is applesauce.
Will Rogers
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Theodore Roosevelt
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H. L. Mencken
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Elbert Hubbard
If one day the speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling.
Paul Walker
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
Mark Twain
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
James Madison
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George Eliot
Don't be one to remember everything lent, but forget everything borrowed.
Source Unknown
Always borrow from a pessimist, he never expects anything back.
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.
Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.
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