Literature Quotes - Page 12

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.

Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work to be found on American stages, engaging with the canon of world dramatic literature in a vigorous way.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.