"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
~~ Napolean Bonaparte [1769-1821]
"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice."
~~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton [1815-1902]
"Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It’s about as simple as that."
~~ James L. Brooks
"Sex and television are the opium of the people."
~~ Ross Macdonald [1915-83] in "The Barbarous Coast" [1956 novel]
"It isn't that jazz musicians die young, it's that they get older quicker."
~~ Geoff Dyer
"Men change, but seldom do they."
~~ old saying
"Earth provides for every man's need, but not for every man's greed."
~~ Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
"There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time."
~~ Coco Chanel [1883-1971]
"Those only are happy who have their mind fixed on some object other than their own happiness."
~~ John Stuart Mill [1806-73]
"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
~~ Sir Winston Churchill [1874-1965]
"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
~~ Leo Tolstoy [1828-1910]
"A Nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a commnon hatred of its neighbors."
~~ Wm. Ralph Inge [1860-1954]
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
~~ William Faulkner [1897-1962]
"A healthy adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."
~~ John Updike [1932-2009]
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage doesn't need to be lived again."
~~ Maya Angelou
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something."
~~ playwright Wilson Mizner [1876-1933]
"Don't judge each day by the harvest [that] you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
~~ Robert Louis Stevenson [1850-94]
"Maybe when Obama gets back from Ireland he can chase the snakes out of Washington, DC."
~~ G.E. Nordell
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read."
~~ G.K. Chesterton [1874-1936]
"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy."
~~ broadcast journalist Edward P. Morgan [1910-93]
"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers. That is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
~~ Stephen W. Hawking
"A house without books is like a room without windows."
~~ Heinrich Mann [1871-1950]
"Never judge a book by its movie."
~~ J.W. Eagan
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all."
~~ Abraham Lincoln [1809-65]
"What, O Lord, was the point?"
~~ Anthony Lane
"My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me."
~~ painter Georgia O'Keeffe [1887-1986]
"It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it."
~~ playwright Lillian Hellman [1905-84]
"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little."
~~ Thomas Merton [1915-68]
"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble."
~~ Dr. Samuel Johnson [1709-84]
"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
~~ Oprah Winfrey
"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin."
~~ Ivan Turgenev [1818-83]
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault."
~~ Henry Kissinger
"Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing."
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82]
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
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