Favourite Quotes
Submitted by 1922 on Wed, 01/25/2006 - 11:42
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Woody Allen (1935- )
- I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
- If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
- Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
- On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
- My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
- I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
- I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
- Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
- What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
- When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
- Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
- I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
- Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
- A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
- Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
- America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
- Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
- Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
- Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
- I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
- I am not young enough to know everything.
- Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
- Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
- The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
- The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
- There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
- Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
- I can resist anything but temptation.
- Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Only the shallow know themselves.
- But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
- I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
- I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
- One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
- There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
- There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
- Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Hate the sin, love the sinner.
- Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
- You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Others
- When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. (Bernard Bailey)
- You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. (Beverly Sills)
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