quotes

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.

- Allen, Woody

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

- Pablo Picasso

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

- Grillparzer, Franz

Think and grow rich.

- Hill, Napoleon

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

- Caesar Augustus

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

- Beamon, Bob

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

- Locke, John

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

- Dane, Frank

Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.

- Lamb, Charles

10.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

- Eliot, George

11.

Majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But -- like other precious, sacred things, such as the home and the family -- it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stonewashed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And -- since women are a majority of the population -- we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

- O'Rourke, P. J.

12.

Let us do or die.

- Burns, Robert

13.

Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

14.

Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.

- Robert Frost

15.

After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its calculations will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.

- Levi, Primo

16.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

- Sade, Marquis De

17.

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.

- Adler, Felix

18.

I can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

- Frank Sinatra

19.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

- Rivarol, Antoine

20.

The liar's punishment ... is that he cannot believe anyone else.

- George Bernard Shaw