If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The question of common sense is what is it good for? A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
James Russell Lowell
A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
If I had as much make-up on as he did, I'd have looked younger, too.
Ronald Reagan
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants
Friedrich Nietzsche
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us;The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us,We bargain for the graves we lie in;At the Devils booth are all things sold,Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold;For a cap and bells our lives we pay,Bubbles we buy with a whole souls tasking:T'is heaven alone that is given away,T'is only God may be had for the asking;No price is set on the lavish summer;June may be had by the poorest comer.And what is so rare as a day in June?Then, if ever, come perfect days;Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune,And over it softly her warm ear lays:Whether we look, or whether we listen,We hear life murmur, or see it glisten.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Careless seems the great Avenger; historyÂ’s pages but record
This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls, will stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision, it might be well if you would ask yourself, are you better off than you were four years ago?
Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
E. V. Lucas
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
Clare Boothe Luce
If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged
Terry Pratchett
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Albert Einstein
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.
Virginia Woolf
A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.
Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Blaise Pascal
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.
But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. On Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
They say women talk too much. If you ever worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented yb men.
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
Lucretius
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