Famous Quotes
1561 Quotations with Vent.
- 141. George Santayana: The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too mu ...
- 142. Voltaire: Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- 143. Albert Camus: He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human c ...
- 144. George Bernard Shaw: I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in hum ...
- 145. Abraham Lincoln: The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was di ...
- 146. Alex Comfort: We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutr ...
- 147. Neil Simon: There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in L ...
- 148. Giovanni Morelli: Avoid falsehoods like the plague except in matters of taxation, which do not cou ...
- 149. Dame Edith Sitwell: Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
- 150. Willie Pastrano: I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. ...
- 151. Idi Amin: I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonab ...
- 152. Joe Gores: A detective digs around in the garbage of people's lives. A novelist invents peo ...
- 153. Unknown: Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, dis ...
- 154. Ambrose Bierce: Lawyer, n. One skilled in the circumvention of the law.
- 155. Jorge Luis Borges: My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding in ...
- 156. Dorothy Parker: I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the ...
- 157. Jerome Lettvin: Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise re ...
- 158. Ed McMahon: God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.
- 159. W. R. Inge: Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happen ...
- 160. E. J. Smith: When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years ...