(1240 quotes found)
“Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years”
Willa Sibert Cather
“Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.”
David Letterman
“Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.”
W. Clement Stone
“Not wine... men intoxicate themselves; Not vice... men entice themselves.”
William Shakespeare
“The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state”
William Scranton
“Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it”
William Penn
“The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything”
Clarence Darrow
“They know, they just know where to grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just know, and therefore, I've concluded weeds must have brains.”
Dianne Benson
“Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
