Quotes by American Authors - Page 33

Violence is essentially a confession of ultimate inarticulateness.
Time Magazine
The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide not murder.
Norman Mailer
Is some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
César Chávez
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.
Christopher Morley
Violence is essentially wordless and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.
Thomas Merton
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
Oliver Hazard Perry
To the victors belong the spoils.
Andrew Jackson
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.
Mark Twain
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
Peter De Vries
Well-adjusted means you can make the same mistakes over and over again and keep smiling.
George Bergman
I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
Nora Ephron
Show me someone who never gossips and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
Barbara Walters
I have my standards. They may be low but I have them.
Bette Midler
After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said "No bablo ingles."
Ronnie Shakes
I may have faults but being wrong ain't one of them.
Jimmy Hoffa
We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing other patients.
Oscar Levant
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
W.C.Fields
When compelled to cook I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag.
Russell Baker
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz
She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.
Dorothy Parker
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
Olin Miller
Everyone is ignorant only on different subjects.
Will Rogers
Deep down I'm really shallow.
Linda Merkin
He talks at the drop of a pause.
John Mason Brown
Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
Rita Mae Brown
I never gossip but I can give you the names of certain people who do.
Judy Hampton
At home I am a nice guy but I don't want the world to know. Humble people I've found don't go very far.
Muhammad Ali
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
If I only had a little humility I'd be perfect.
Ted Turner
I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
Molly Ivins
My mother said "You won't amount to anything because you procrastinate." I said "Just wait."
Judy Tenuta
Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large.
George Carlin
Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city.
Thornton Wilder
One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
Bret Harte
Vice goes a long way tow'rd makin' life bearable. A little vice now an' thin is relished by th' best iv men.
Finley Peter Dunne
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Benjamin Franklin
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider's web.
Edwin Way Teale
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Liberty and Union now and forever one and inseparable.
Daniel Webster
The union of lakes - the union of lands - The union of States none can sever - The union of hearts - the union of hands - And the flag of our union for ever!
George P. Morris
We must all hang together or assuredly we shall hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
Then join in hand brave Americans all! By uniting we stand by dividing we fall.
John Dickinson
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Don Marquis
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
Don Herold
O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.
H.L. Mencken
Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.
Tom Robbins
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Thomas Jefferson
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Walter Colton
How lovely are the portals of the night When stars come out to watch the daylight die.
Thomas Cole
I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.
Harry S. Truman
If you are out to describe the truth leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old but because they are true.
Barry Goldwater
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Thomas Jefferson
Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.
Henry David Thoreau
As scarce as truth is the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings
The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.
Paul Tillich