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Famous People Quotes #8

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.” – Martin Fraquhar Tupper

“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book – I’ll waste no time reading it.” – Moses Hadas (1900-1966)

“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.” – Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.” – Goethe (1749-1832)

“In the end, everything is a gag.” – Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

“The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people.” – Lucille S. Harper

“You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” – Yogi Berra

“I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.” – Walt Disney (1901-1966)

“He who hesitates is a damned fool.” – Mae West (1892-1980)

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” – Gail Godwin

“University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” – Henry Kissinger (1923-)

“The graveyards are full of indispensable men.” – Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)

“You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty.” – Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)

“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” – Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

“If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.” – Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

“I am not young enough to know everything.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” – General George Patton (1885-1945)

“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“I don’t even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.” – Katherine Cebrian

“I have an existential map; it has ‘you are here’ written all over it.” – Steven Wright

“Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.” – Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

“Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.” – Oliver Herford (1863-1935)

“I have read your book and much like it.” – Moses Hadas (1900-1966)

“The covers of this book are too far apart.” – Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

“Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.” – Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)

“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.” – Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.” – Voltaire (1694-1778)

“When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.” – Mae West (1892-1980)

“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.” – Elvis Presley (1935-1977)

“No Sane man will dance.” – Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

“Hell is a half-filled auditorium.” – Robert Frost (1874-1963)

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.” – Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

“Vote early and vote often.” – Al Capone (1899-1947)

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?” – Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

“Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“Hell is other people.” – Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” – Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavad Gita, after witnessing the world’s first nuclear explosion)

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” – Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)

“Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.” – Thomas Jones

“You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” – Al Capone (1899-1947)

“The gods too are fond of a joke.” – Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

“Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.” – Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

“The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.” – Gloria Leonard

The Famous Last Words of Famous People

Posted on November 20, 2010 by

This, is the last of earth. I am content. – Adams John Quincy

For my name and memory, I leave it to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages. – Bacon Sir Francis

Let’s roll. – Todd Beamer

Don’t die like I did. – George Best

Work hard to gain your own salvation. – Buddha

Hallo, the bow is up… I’m going… I’m on my back… I’ve gone. Oh. – Donald Campbell

Let not poor Nelly starve. – King Charles II

Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way. – Erskine Childers

It’s better to burn out than to fade away. – Kurt Cobain

My design is to make what haste I can to be gone. – Oliver Cromwell

I do not believe in my death. – Salvador Dali

My God. What’s happened? – Diana, Princess of Wales

Adieu, mes amis. Je vais à la gloire. (Farewell, my friends. I go to glory.) – Isadora Duncan

Bugger Bognor! – King George V

Mehr Licht! (More light!) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don’t waste any time in mourning – organize. – Joe Hill

On the contrary. – Henrik Ibsen

Be of good comfort Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace in England, as (I trust) shall never be put out. – Hugh Latimer

Strike the tent. – Robert E. Lee

I’m shot. – John Lennon

I told you I was ill. – Spike Milligan

This hath not offended the king. – Thomas More

Thank God, I have done my duty. – Horatio Nelson

I am just going outside and may be some time. – Captain Lawrence Oates

What do I tell the pilot to do? – Barbara Olson

Die, my dear Doctor, that’s the last thing I shall do! – Lord Henry Temple Palmerston

I believe that a life lived for music is an existence spent wonderfully, and this is what I have dedicated my life to. – Luciano Pavarotti

I think I could eat one of Bellamy’s veal pies. – William Pitt

Let me go to the house of the Father. – Pope John Paul II

I hope I haven’t bored you. – Elvis Presley

I have a long journey to take, and must bid the company farewell. – Walter Ralegh

So little done, so much to do. – Cecil Rhodes

Lord take my soul, but the struggle continues. – Ken Saro-Wiwa

They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance. – General John Sedgwick

“What is the answer?” No answer came. She laughed and said, “In that case what is the question?” – Gertrude Stein

If this is dying, then I don’t think much of it. – Lytton Strachey

Relax – This won’t hurt. – Hunter S. Thompson

One of us must go. – Oscar Wilde

Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Music Quotes

Posted on October 17, 2010October 17, 2010 by

“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.” – Ed Gardner

“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” – Robert Fripp

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” – Plato

“Life is one grand, sweet song so start the music.” – Ronald Reagan

“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.” – Bill Cosby

“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.” – Samuel Johnson

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” – Lao Tzu

“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.” – Elvis Presley

“Music is a safe kind of high.” – Jimi Hendrix

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” – Victor Hugo