Quotes by Authors - Page 58

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Ann Landers
The classes that wash most are those that work least.
G.K. Chesterton
Gentleman: one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Anonymous
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
Oscar Wilde
Twenty per cent of the people in volunteer groups do ninety per cent of the work.
Anonymous
The cocktail party - a device for paying off obligations to people you don't want to invite to dinner.
Charles Merrill Smith
The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal ours is apathetic.
James Thurber
The complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.
John F Kennedy
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F Kennedy
There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.
Miguel de Cervantes
The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Two people can form a community by excluding a third.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.
Laurence Durrell
Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
Jules Renard
Somerset House in London where at one time English vital statistics were kept - birth marriage and death records - was known as the egg factory "where they hatch 'em match 'em and dispatch 'em."
Anonymous
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.
Henry David Thoreau
The true snob never rests there is always a higher goal to attain and there are by the same token always more and more people to look down upon.
Russell Lynes
All the people like us are We And everyone else is They.
Rudyard Kipling
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
Brander Matthews
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
John Buchan
The public has a taste for supping with the great.
Ulick O'Connor
A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it.
Anonymous
The smartest thing I ever said was "Help Me!"
Anonymous
I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
Gerald Ford
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Jeff Valdez
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
Miguel de Cervantes
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed and can't get there is the meanest feeling in the world.
Edgar Watson Howe
If slander be a snake it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
Douglas Jerrold
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world insincerity is the most dangerous.
James Froude
The sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
Rudyard Kipling
Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.
Victor Hugo
He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.
Thomas Fuller
O sin what hast thou done to this fair earth!
R. H. Dana
Simple style is like white light. It is complex but its complexity is not obvious.
Anatole France
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
John Morley
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram
All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom justice honor duty mercy hope.
Winston Churchill
Simplicity carried to an extreme becomes elegance.
Jon Franklin
It's a simple formula do your best and somebody might like it.
Dorothy Baker
Art it seems to me should simplify.
Willa Cather
The niftiest turn of phrase the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.
Jeff Greenfield
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
Bernard Malamud
When ideas come I write them when they don't come I don't.
William Faulkner
My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday.
Noël Coward
I just take my three swings and go sit on the bench. I don't ever want to mess up my swing.
Dick Allen
The way you get better at playing football is to play football.
Gene Brodie
Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners.
Vic Braden
Players have two things to do: Play and keep their mouths shut.
Sparky Anderson
In combat life is short nasty and brutish. The issues of national policy which brought him into war are irrelevant to the combat soldier he is concerned with his literal life chances.
Charles E. Moskos
What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all.
Anonymous
If you aren't going all the way why go at all?
Joe Namath
Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.
Esther de Waal
Success is simple. Do what's right the right way at the right time.
Arnold Glasow
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.
Storm Jameson
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.
Leo Tolstoy
Simplicity simplicity simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown