"I have decided to be happy. It is excellent for one's health!"—Voltaire
"Beauty should be edible, or not at all."—Salvador Dalí
"The master is he who can make you laugh the hardest and the longest."—Henry Miller
"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."—Oscar Wilde
"Dip him in the river who loves water."—William Blake
"I don't want to go to heaven, I want to go to Claridge's."—Spencer Tracy
"Sin Bravely."—Martin Luther
"You can live without love, but not without lovers."—Despina in Così fan tutte
"I am a man who pisses largely and frequently, which they say is a sign of great mental activity….To relieve a full bladder is one of the great human joys."—Henry Miller
"There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable."—Anton Chekhov
"One should never give a woman anything that she can't wear in the evening."—Oscar Wilde
"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."—Aristotle
"Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows."—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Perhaps the most admirable among the admirable laws of Nature is the survival of the weakest."—Vladimir Nabokov
"I have never heard of any crime which I might not have committed."—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The best theory of the gods is no theory at all."—Socrates
"We become moral when we are unhappy."—Marcel Proust
"The inexhaustible brothel of my desires"—the Count of Monte Cristo
"A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts."—Paul Valéry
"The beautiful is that which fills us with despair."—Paul Valéry
"Do not limp before the lame."—Francois Rabelais
"The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous."—Salvador Dalí
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."—Oscar Wilde
"The worldly will to life, not the Christian sufferance of life"—Erich Auerbach on Boccaccio
"You only live twice, Mr. Bond."—Ernst Stavro Blofeld
"A kissed mouth loses no savour, but is renewed, like the moon."—Giovanni Boccaccio
"If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry."—Anton Chekhov
"Steal me awhile from mine own company."—Helena invoking sleep in A Midsummer Night's Dream
"A woman being never at a loss...the devil always sticks by them."—Edgar Allan Poe
"I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it."—Rodney Dangerfield
"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."—Edgar Allan Poe
"One got up late to make the wings of ambition lazy and one dared not go to bed till even later for fear of awakening those of remorse."—Salvador Dalí
"It's your job to betray the whole human race."—Henry Miller
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."—Oscar Wilde
"I do not conquer, I submit."—Giacomo Casanova
"Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!"―Michel de Montaigne
"None of us loves by deliberate choice but from appetite and pleasure."—Giovanni Boccaccio
"I have nothing. I owe much. I leave the rest to the poor."—Francois Rabelais
"One must not make oneself cheap here—that is a cardinal point—or else one is done. Whoever is the most impertinent has the best chance."—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money."—Molière
"What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us."—Hamlet
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
—Ariel
"Beauty should be edible, or not at all."—Salvador Dalí
"The master is he who can make you laugh the hardest and the longest."—Henry Miller
"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."—Oscar Wilde
"Dip him in the river who loves water."—William Blake
"I don't want to go to heaven, I want to go to Claridge's."—Spencer Tracy
"Sin Bravely."—Martin Luther
"You can live without love, but not without lovers."—Despina in Così fan tutte
"I am a man who pisses largely and frequently, which they say is a sign of great mental activity….To relieve a full bladder is one of the great human joys."—Henry Miller
"There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable."—Anton Chekhov
"One should never give a woman anything that she can't wear in the evening."—Oscar Wilde
"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."—Aristotle
"Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows."—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Perhaps the most admirable among the admirable laws of Nature is the survival of the weakest."—Vladimir Nabokov
"I have never heard of any crime which I might not have committed."—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The best theory of the gods is no theory at all."—Socrates
"We become moral when we are unhappy."—Marcel Proust
"The inexhaustible brothel of my desires"—the Count of Monte Cristo
"A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts."—Paul Valéry
"The beautiful is that which fills us with despair."—Paul Valéry
"Do not limp before the lame."—Francois Rabelais
"The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous."—Salvador Dalí
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."—Oscar Wilde
"The worldly will to life, not the Christian sufferance of life"—Erich Auerbach on Boccaccio
"You only live twice, Mr. Bond."—Ernst Stavro Blofeld
"A kissed mouth loses no savour, but is renewed, like the moon."—Giovanni Boccaccio
"If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry."—Anton Chekhov
"Steal me awhile from mine own company."—Helena invoking sleep in A Midsummer Night's Dream
"A woman being never at a loss...the devil always sticks by them."—Edgar Allan Poe
"I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it."—Rodney Dangerfield
"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."—Edgar Allan Poe
"One got up late to make the wings of ambition lazy and one dared not go to bed till even later for fear of awakening those of remorse."—Salvador Dalí
"It's your job to betray the whole human race."—Henry Miller
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."—Oscar Wilde
"I do not conquer, I submit."—Giacomo Casanova
"Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!"―Michel de Montaigne
"None of us loves by deliberate choice but from appetite and pleasure."—Giovanni Boccaccio
"I have nothing. I owe much. I leave the rest to the poor."—Francois Rabelais
"One must not make oneself cheap here—that is a cardinal point—or else one is done. Whoever is the most impertinent has the best chance."—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money."—Molière
"What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us."—Hamlet
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
—Ariel
I'm enjoying your blog, Robert, and love the quotes!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Phil. Glad to have you.
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