Quotes by American Authors - Page 69

In California everyone goes to a therapist is a therapist or is a therapist going to a therapist.
Truman Capote
Nothing succeeds like one's own successor.
Clarence H. Hinclcs
When Babe Ruth was asked in 1930 how he felt about making more money that the President of the United States he replied 'I had a better year than he (Herbert Hoover) did.' When Tom Snyder was asked in 1977 how he felt about making more money per year than President Carter he replied 'I have to go out and buy my own 707.'
Cleveland Amory
In uplifting get underneath.
George Ade
Flint must be an extremely wealthy town I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
Victor Borge
Mother: It's broccoli dear. Child: I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it.
Carl Rose
A hole is nothing at all but you can break your neck in it.
Austin O'Malley
Include me out.
Sam Goldwyn
Epigram: a wisecrack that has played Carnegie Hall.
Oscar Levant
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Sam Goldwyn
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
Truman Capote
When people don't want to come nothing will stop them.
Sol Hurok
Her face was her chaperone.
Rupert Hughes
Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on.
Arthur K. Watson
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
Tom Lehrer
I never said "I want to be alone." I only said "I want to be left alone." There is all the difference.
Greta Garbo
I don't know much about being a millionaire but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
Dorothy Parker
I don't deserve this but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
Jack Benny
He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.
Ring Lardner
Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
Oscar Levant
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Dorothy Parker
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein
Only two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
One bliss for which there is no match is when you itch to up and scratch.
Ogden Nash
I have admired W.C. Fields since the day he advanced upon Baby LeRoy with an ice pick. Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
Leo Rosten
No Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend.
Groucho Marx
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Walt Whitman
The best is the cheapest.
Benjamin Franklin
The object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
Horace Mann
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Horace Mann
Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe
The public be damned.
W. H. Vanderbilt
I believe that this neglected wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.
John Bradshaw
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Sam Goldwyn
Depression is rage spread thin.
Paul Tillich
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May
The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else's.
Goodman Ace
The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
Caskie Stinnet
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.
William Menninger
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter
Those modern analysts they charge so much! In my day for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.
Woody Allen
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.
Thomas Szasz
I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes.
Woody Allen
The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
Henry David Thoreau
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
William James
There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.
Henry George
Mine is better than ours.
Benjamin Franklin
I come from a State that raises corn and cotton and cock-leburs and Democrats and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.
Willard D. Vandiver
You are all you will ever have for certain .
June Havoc
Get your facts first and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.
Mark Twain
Statistics are no substitute for judgement.
Henry Clay
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.
George Washington
If you strike a thorn or rose Keep a-goin! If it hails or if it snows Keep a-goin! 'Tain't no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line Bait your hook an' keep on tryin'. Keep a-goin!
Frank L. Stanton
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes to increase luxury and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
Henry George
Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
Bill Vaughan
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey