Rita Mae Brown Quotes - Page 5

So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.

I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.

The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.

Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.

Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.

I believe all literature started as gossip.

Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.

The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.