Quotes to inspire and reflect

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible.

I LOVE SHERLOCK HOLMES. MY LIFE IS SO UNTIDY AND HE’S SO NEAT.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

THOUGH A GOOD DEAL IS TOO STRANGE TO BE BELIEVED, NOTHING IS TOO STRANGE TO HAVE HAPPENED.

You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

YOU ASK ME WHAT LIFE IS. THAT’S LIKE ASKING WHAT A CARROT IS. A CARROT IS A CARROT, AND THERE’S NOTHING MORE TO KNOW.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

IT IS DANGEROUS TO BE SINCERE UNLESS YOU ARE ALSO STUPID.

EASY READING IS DAMN HARD WRITING.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live!

Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

DON’T TELL ME THE MOON IS SHINING; SHOW ME THE GLINT OF LIGHT ON BROKEN GLASS.

A SEQUEL IS AN ADMISSION THAT YOU’VE BEEN REDUCED TO IMITATING YOURSELF.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

I can’t understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems; it’s like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

A GOOD NOVEL TELLS US THE TRUTH ABOUT ITS HERO; BUT A BAD NOVEL TELLS US THE TRUTH ABOUT ITS AUTHOR.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard.

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Happiness is finding two olives in your martini when you're hungry.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing-glove.

Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

A pessimist is one who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

He was the sort of man who would have tried to cheer Napoleon up by talking about the Winter Sports at Moscow.

Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'What I'm Going to be if I Grow up'.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.

No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

The quickest way to make a million? Marry it.

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Generals detest generals on their own side far more than they dislike the enemy.

The general was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

We are here on earth to do good for others; what the others are here for I have no idea.

I'm sorry, my good fellow, but all my money is tied up in currency.

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Other dangerous months are July, january, September, April, November, May, March, june, December, August and February.

Now that he was rich he was not thought ignorant any more, but simply eccentric.

I was once so poor I didn't know where my next husband was coming from.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.