The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.
Dorothy Parker, Inventory
By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying - Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.
Dorothy Parker, Unfortunate Coin
Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.
Dorothy Parker, Experience
Once when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that was very bad. Love is for unlucky folk. Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.
Dorothy Parker, A Very Short Son
I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; I never thought the rose's velvet hue Would pale and sicken, though we said good-by. I never dreamed the lark would hush its note As day succeeded ever-drearier day, Nor knew the song that swelled the robin's throat Would fade to silence, when you went away. I never knew the sun's irradiant beams Upon the brooding earth no more would shine, Nor thought that only in my mocking dreams Would happiness that once I knew be mine. I never thought the slim moon, mournfully, Would shroud her pallid self in murky night. Dear heart, I never thought these things would be-I never thought they would, and I was right.
Dorothy Parker, Absence
They laid their hands upon my head, They stroked my cheek and brow; And time could heal a hurt, they said, And time could dim a vow. And they were pitiful and mild Who whispered to me then; The heart that breaks in April, child; Will mend in May again. Oh, many a mended heart they knew; So old they were, and wise. And little did they have to do To come to me with lies! Who flings me silly talk of May Shall meet a bitter soul; For June was nearly spent away Before my heart was whole.
Dorothy Parker, The False Friend
Oh seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday Go take your damned tomorrow!
Dorothy Parker, Godspeed
Oh, it is sure as it is sad That any lad is every lad, And what's a girl, to dare implore Her dear be hers forevermore? Though he be tried and he be bold, And swearing death should he be cold, He'll run the path the others went.... But you, my sweet, are different.
Dorothy Parker, from Incurable
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle
n.: In Italian, a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison.
Ambrose Bierce
You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was the fault of whatever idiot has accepted this message for sending in the first place. No one cared about you, and everyone at headquarters was an idiot. It wasn't your fault, no one listened to you. Headquarters had even started an Employee of the Month scheme to show how much they cared. That was how much they didn't care.
Terry Pratchett
Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.
J.K. Rowling
Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.
Ricardo Montalban
Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
Eliza Dushku
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
William Shakespeare
My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.
Trey Parker
If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.
Victor Hugo
The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.
Helen Hayes
I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
Sting
Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction
Samuel Johnson
One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.
Josefina Vazquez Mota
As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Paulo Coelho
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
Lester Maddox
Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
Martin Luther King Jr.
All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?
Willie Nelson
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!
If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?
Jodi Picoult
I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.
Chris Isaak
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.
Jean Rostand
If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- I've got to have them.
Ken Dodd
Let us live while we live.
Philip Doddridge
It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.
John F. Dodge
Do the best you can, with what you can, while you can, and success in inevitable.
Steve Maraboli
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George Eliot
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?
Mark Twain
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