new quotes for 2011
Clearly, God is a Democrat. ~Patrick Caddell
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ~Samuel McChord Crothers, "Every Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else" The Dame School of Experience, 1920
It's too big a world to be in competition with everyone. The only person who I have to be better than is myself. ~Colonel Potter
Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce. ~Frank Burns, "Bulletin Board," original airdate 14 January 1975, written by Larry Gelbart, directed by Alan Alda
Geology shows that fossils are of different ages. Paleontology shows a fossil sequence, the list of species represented changes through time. Taxonomy shows biological relationships among species. Evolution is the explanation that threads it all together. Creationism is the practice of squeezing one's eyes shut and wailing "Does not!" ~Author Unknown
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses providing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man as twice its natural size. ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. ~Marcus Valerius Martial
Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain. ~Proverbs 25:14
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ~Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. ~Oliver Goldsmith I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. ~Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, 1911
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ~Roseanne Barr
Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. ~Henry David Thoreau
It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think. ~Rene Descartes, Discourse on the Method, 1637 (translated)
He was ever precise in promise-keeping. ~William Shakespeare
In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse. ~Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One, 1948
Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially. ~A. Bronson Alcott
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people, to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. ~William Arthur Ward
Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess. ~Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1894
If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. ~H.L. Mencken