Random Quotes



"You can have friends
or you can correct
people's grammar."
--Mary Norris



"A man's reach should
exceed his grasp."
--Robert Browning



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




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




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



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





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




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




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



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



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




"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



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



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




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




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



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





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




"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





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




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




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




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




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




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



"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




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




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





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



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




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



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




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



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



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




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





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




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)




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




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



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



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




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




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



"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)