Quotes to inspire and reflect

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature --- and another woman to help him forget them.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

In love there are things --- bodies and words.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

Excessive literary production is a social offense. George Eliot, a.k.a.

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

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.

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 on me.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

His voice was an intimate as the rustle of sheets.

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?

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

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

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

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

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

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

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

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

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

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

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

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