Quotes to inspire and reflect

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.

This is on me.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

As I grow older and older, and totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.

His voice was an intimate as the rustle of sheets.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. Thomas H.

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

Get up, stand up Stand up for your rights Get up, stand up Never give up the fight.

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. F.

Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.

Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government.

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

Children are all foreigners.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.