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"Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer."
James Thurber
"Beautiful things don't ask for attention."
"Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life."
"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."
"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."
"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness."
"Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?"
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."
"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."
"Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it."
"You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night."
"She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about."
"Love is what you've been through with somebody"
"Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years."
"Don't get it right, get it written."
"I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed."
"The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his."
"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere."
"There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception."
"Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?"
"Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long."
"Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After."
"One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough."
"The most dangerous food is wedding cake."
"You can fool too many people, too much of the time."
"Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised"
"I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart."
"Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy, wealthy, and dead."
"I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance."
"For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide."
"These are the days of bootleg love."
"Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."
"We all have faults, mine is being wicked."
"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."
"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."
"Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation."
"All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first."
"Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage."
"I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method."
"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess."
"He who hesitates is sometimes saved."
"With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs."
"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself."
"Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness."
"Quick, name some towns in New Jersey"
"Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige..."
"You mere device," he gnarled. "You platitude! Your Gollux ex machina!"
"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."