43 quotes -- arranged kinda "willy-nilly"


1.
"Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer."
--Henry Lawson



2.
"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
--Don Marquis



3.
"A chicken is an egg's way of making another egg."
--Samuel Butler



4.
There are three things we cry for
in life: things that are lost, things
that are found, and things that are
magnificent.
--Douglas Coupland




5.
"Though a good deal is too
strange to be believed,
nothing is too strange
to have happened."
--Thomas Hardy



6.
"Men don't care what's on TV.  They only care what else is on TV."
--Jerry Seinfeld


7.
"Beware the lollipop of
mediocrity.  Lick it once
and you'll suck forever."
--Brian Wilson


8.
"I see through you. You're trying
to conceal that your soul is a
perfumed jellyfish."
--John Horne Burns, The Gallery, p. 88


9.
"My theory is that all of
Scottish cuisine is
based on a dare."
--Mike Myers



10.
"Choose a place where you
won't do very much harm,
and stand in it for
all you are worth, facing
the sunshine."
--E.M. Forster


11.
"Nobody realizes that
some people expend
tremendous energy
merely to be normal."
--Albert Camus


12.
"It has been my
experience that folks
who have no vices have
very few virtues."
--Abraham Lincoln



13.
"The greatest mistake you
can make in life is to
be continually fearing
you will make one."
--Elbert Hubbard



14.
"The difference
between literature and journalism is
that journalism is unreadable and
literature is not read."
--Oscar Wilde


15.
"The dying process
begins the minute
we are born, but it
accelerates during
dinner parties."
--Carol Matthau




16.
Alcohol time is very different from sober time. Alcohol time is slippery whereas sober time is like cat hair.  You just can't get rid of it.
--Augusten Burroughs, Dry, p. 220



17.
"Be who you
are and say
what you feel
because those
who mind
don't matter
and those
who matter
don't mind."
--Dr. Seuss




18.
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." -- food writer Michael Pollan



19.
ALL OF LIFE IS A DISPUTE OVER TASTE AND TASTING.
 --Friedrich Nietzsche



20.
"Poetry and drink are the two greatest things on earth."
      --Richard Burton



21.
By one estimate, spiders of the world consume more than 1.8 billion pounds of insects per day.
--Grit, March/April 2011



22.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.



23.
"The truth will set you free.  But first, it will piss you off."
--Gloria Steinem


24.
"A 2005 study found that just 11 percent of college professors
identified as Republican and 15 percent identified as
conservative.  Some argue that this simply represents a liberal
bias in academia.  But just as strong a case could be made that
people who absorb facts easily don't suffer fools gladly."
--Charles M. Blow, The New York Times, 12/8/12



25.
"I am a deeply superficial person."
   --Andy Warhol



26.
"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God."
   --Lenny Bruce (1923-1966)




27.
"The worst thing about some men is that when they
are not drunk they are sober."
  --William Bulter Yeats (1865-1939)


28.
"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as
much as you do."
  --Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)



29.
"A productive drunk is the bane of moralists."
  --Unknown


30.
"A cask of wine works more miracles than a church full of saints."
--Italian Proverb



31.
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
--Mark Twain (1835-1910)


32.
Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.
--J. G. Ballard


33.
The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
--Alben W. Barkley (1877-1956)



34.
All the really good ideas I
ever had came to me while
I was milking a cow. 
--Grant Wood




35.
I feel sorry for people who don't drink, because when
they get up in the morning, they're not going to feel any
better all day.
--Frank Sinatra



36.
Uncle Sam ain't no
woman, but he
sure can take
your man.
--Hot Lips Page, "Uncle Sam Blues" (1944)
--Fats Domino, "Korea Blues" (1950)
--Hot Tuna, "Uncle Sam Blues" (1969)



37.
It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.
--Marcel Duchamp



38.
I have never yet enjoyed a day, but I have never stopped
trying to arrange for happiness.
--Jane Bowles


39.
Not all those who wander are lost.
--J.R.R. Tolkien


40.
It is a sin to believe
evil of others but it
is seldom a mistake.
--H. L. Mencken


41.
Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have
always been the two most beautiful words in the English
language.
--Henry James



42.
hope is the mother of disappointment
and the father of despair.
--Carl Miller Daniels


43.
"Contempt for happiness is
usually contempt for other
people's happiness, and is an
elegant disguise for hatred
of the human race."
--Bertrand Russell, English philosopher
and mathematician (1872-1970)