"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life."
Jack Kerouac
"You just can't beat up a person who never gives up."
Babe Ruth
"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the
fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
E. L. Doctorow
"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in
planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they
dislike."
Alexander Hamilton
"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
Voltaire
"There are no facts, only interpretations."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher."
Ambrose Bierce
"Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them."
Peter Ustinov
"I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them."
Jimmy Hoffa
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting 'holy shit, what a ride!'"
George Carlin
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."
Jack London
"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam."
"I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood."
"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."
"People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think."
"When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat."
"The status quo sucks." George Carlin
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
Edgar Allan Poe
"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you." unknown
"...the lesser of two weevils..." Jack Aubrey
"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." Muhammad Ali
"There is no friend as loyal as a book." Ernest Hemingway
"Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power
from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and
sterilize you."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"...some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few
to be chewed and
digested." Sir Francis
Bacon
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a
whole relationship."
Sharon Stone
"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."
Victor Hugo
"Critics come down from the hills after the battle and shoot the wounded."
Ernest Hemingway
"A woman drove me to drink, and I never even had the courtesy to thank her."
W. C. Fields
"I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool."
Leon Spinks
It
is rather stifling to be an "educated fool." To have an education and
to fool yourself into believing that what you learned from books in a
classroom makes you smart is ignorant and a dangerous self-deception.
"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened."
Ernest Hemingway
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
Hunter S. Thompson