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A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
— Samuel Johnson
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
— Blaise Pascal
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject oursevles, or we know where we can find information upon it.
— Samuel Johnson
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
— Sam Levenson
The only cats worth anything are the cats who take chances.
— Thelonius Monk
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
— Mark Twain
Never trust someone who can't say sorry to a dog.
— James Lileks
Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
— Groucho Marx
I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
— Hugh Laurie
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
— Albert Einstein
The beginning and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
— John Galsworthy
BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
— Ambrose Bierce
EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
— Ambrose Bierce
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
— Shakespeare
What is past is prologue.
— Shakespeare
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
— Mark Twain
Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.
— Winston Churchill
I write books to find out about things.
— Rebecca West
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
— Jim Horning
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanations.
— Anon.
There's no such thing as fun for the whole family.
— Jerry Seinfeld
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
— Niels Bohr
Advertising can be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
— Stephen Butler Leacock
I don't need time. What I need is a deadline.
— Duke Ellington
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
— Douglas Adams
To know another language is to have a second soul.
— Charlemagne
My resolve at the age of 61 is to have more fun. Basketball and steam rooms are part of that plan. I am guilty of obsessive work habits, hunkered over a laptop, pushing, pushing, pushing, when a sensible man would know that an hour's break, shooting baskets, walking, steaming, would be good for him and good for the work. Why does one not learn this simple truth, even at the age of 61?
— Garrison Keillor
To know the future would not be a blessing but a curse. Life would be unlivable without the innocence of our ignorance.
— Roger Ebert
When childhood dies, the corpses are called adults.
— Brian Aldiss
Drink plenty of fluids. 'Fluids' is medical jargon for 'beer'.
— Dave Barry
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
— Oscar Wilde
If we were clams, we'd never have to take our shoes off.
— Gracie Allen
Meet me down in the bar. We'll drink breakfast together.
— W.C. Fields
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
— Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
— George Bernard Shaw
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Change is a semi with smoke and mirrors, filling the rear-view mirror.
— Greg Brown
Women can actually love us for ourselves, bless their hearts, even when we can't love ourselves.
— Roger Ebert
The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
— G.B. Shaw
We are quick to forgive our own trespasses, slower to forgive those of others. The challenge of a moral life is to do nothing that needs forgiveness.
— Roger Ebert
You have heard that a good cause justifies any war, but I say unto you that a good war justifies any cause.
— Nietsche
What in Heaven's name have you done? You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness, You're out there running just to be on the run...
— John Prine
Something's lost but something's gained, in living every day
— Joni Mitchell
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
— Moliere
Time ain't money when all you got is time
— Greg Brown
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dozing, which I call thinking, is my supreme happiness.
— David Hume
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
— Mark Twain
...some situations are capable not of solution but only of accommodation.
— Roger Ebert
boys with girls in love will fall
— ee cummings
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk. Now we stand by each other always.
— William T Sherman
We live more in hope than we think.
— Lord Dunsany
There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.
— Isaac Babel
Sometimes I start out by running 'round With manly men with manly poise; But somehow I end up a dumping ground For uninspired little boys
— (sung by) Lisa Theo
Bergman is telling us that life will end on the terms with which we have lived it.
— Roger Ebert
...on a concrete continent spaced with bland billboards illustrating imbecile illusions of happiness...
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Inside the museum, infinity goes up on trial.
— Bob Dylan
People in nursing homes die watching late-night television, and if I were one of them, I'd be grateful when the darkness descends.
— Garrison Keillor
...doch das Messer sieht man nicht.
— Kurt Weill
Don't tell me to stop crying, please, just hold me while I do
— Julia Fordham
Old songs are more than tunes. They are little houses in which our hearts once lived.
— Ben Hecht
Give me some words I can dance to, and a melody that rhymes.
— Steve Goodman
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
— Mark Twain
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying.
— Woody Allen
What is beautiful...is found accidentally and not sought after. What is beautiful is easily lost.
— Charles Simic
There's a reason love is blind.
— Neal Gladstone
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
— Gustave Flaubert
What they don't tell you about the blues when you got 'em is you keep on falling 'cause there ain't no bottom.
— Emmy Lou Harris
Literature stops in 1100. After that it's only books.
— JRR Tolkein
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
— Umberto Eco
People are divided into two groups - the righteous and the unrighteous - and the righteous do the dividing.
— Lord Cohen
The whole point of popcorn is that you can't pick up melted butter and salt with your hands.
— Eric Lippert
It's damn who you love; go for the one that's in love with you.
— John Hammond
What you have not absorbed by the time you reach the age of eighteen you will never absorb. It is finished. You will be able to develop what you have absorbed. You will be able to make something or nothing at all of it, but your time for absorption is over and for the rest of your life you will be branded by your childhood.
— George Simenon
It is not enough for me to succeed; my enemies must fail.
— David Merrick
The gap between developer and user can be enormous. It's a canyon, and it takes serious effort to cross it.
— Eric Sink
Reitman's screenplay...retains a literary flavor rare in a time when many movies are aimed at people who move their lips when they think.
— Roger Ebert
Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.
— Theodore Roethke
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
— Mae West
You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
— Jim Bouton
I believe we are born with our minds open to wonderful experiences, and only slowly learn to limit ourselves to narrow tastes. We are taught to lose our curiosity, by the bludgeon-blows of mass marketing, which brainwash us ... and discourage exploration.
— Roger Ebert
When the country is threatened, our civil liberties are among the first casualties—as if we can fight the enemy by taking away our own freedoms before the enemy has a chance to.
— Roger Ebert
No one can be what he wants me to be.
— Dulcinea
Soon, though, the hour comes to corrode all your power, pleasure, and faith with the damp dread that it daily assigns you. How you evade it defines you.
— Michael Lind
Someone once said that all female speech is explanation and all male speech is advertisement.
— quoted by Roger Ebert
Rohmer splendidly illustrates the theory that Parisians possess two means of sexual intercourse, of which the primary one is the power of speech.
— Roger Ebert
The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
— Wilfrid Sheed
All the world's a stage, and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
— Sean O'Casey
...not for lack of feeling, but for want of words.
— Debra Kang Dean
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