Better be left by twenty dears / Than lie in a lov — Dorothy Parker
Better be left by twenty dears / Than lie in a loveless bed; / Better a loaf that’s wet with tears, / Than cold, unsalted bread.
More by Dorothy Parker
For most of my reading I go back to the old ones – for comfort.
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He watched, stunned, and while he was watching, Rick died. He could tell when it happened. There was a difference.
There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H. L. Mencken
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche