(1299 quotes found)
“Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year”
Victor Borge
“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
George Orwell
“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.”
Oscar Wilde
“Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.”
Albert Einstein
“To his secretary after a visit from Kurt Cobain, "There's something wrong with that boy. He frowns for no reason."”
William S. Burroughs
“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
Katharine Hepburn
“No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.”
Clarence Darrow
“As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.”
Alison Lurie
“Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws (at most an occasional visit to the cemetery)”
George Carlin
