We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.

William Halsey

All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.

Shannen Doherty

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Benjamin Franklin

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

Joel Edgerton

I didn't get a toy train like the other kids. I got a toy subway instead. You couldn't see anything, but every now and then you'd hear this rumbling noise go by.

Steven Wright

What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, The U

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Jean Baudrillard

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Joe E. Lewis

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

Flattery is like cologne; water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Josh Billings

If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.

Penn Jillette

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

William James