Quotes by Authors - Page 76

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
G.K. Chesterton
Her face was her chaperone.
Rupert Hughes
Sherard Blaw the dramatist who had discovered himself and who had given so unstintingly of his discovery to the world.
Saki
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
His shortcoming is his long staying.
Anonymous
Kiss principle: Keep it simple stupid.
Anonymous
Alimony: the cash surrender value of a husband.
Anonymous
He wouldn't give a duck a drink if he owned Lake Michigan.
Anonymous
India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator.
Winston Churchill
In baiting a mousetrap with cheese always leave room for the mouse.
Saki
I don't know much about being a millionaire but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
Dorothy Parker
Heat madam! It was so dreadful that I found there was nothing for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
Sydney Smith
He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.
Ring Lardner
Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.
Thomas Fuller
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Dorothy Parker
A man surprised is half beaten.
Thomas Fuller
Worthless as wither'd weeds.
Emily Brontë
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein
Quality not quantity is my measure.
Douglas Jerrold
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson
Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe
It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.
William Thackeray
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 the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May
The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
Caskie Stinnet
The four-letter word for psychotherapy is 'talk'.
Anonymous
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
Anonymous
Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
G.K. Chesterton
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
The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.
R.D. Laing
Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
R.D. Laing
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.
Thomas Szasz
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung
I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes.
Woody Allen
A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience.
Mervyn Stockwood
A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Anonymous
Dine on little and sup on less.
Miguel de Cervantes
The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
Henry David Thoreau
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact but a legal fiction.
Max Stirner
You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
John Morley
You are all you will ever have for certain .
June Havoc
A half truth like half a brick is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock
Get your facts first and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.
Mark Twain
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift
Progress - the stride of God!
Victor Hugo
Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.
Anonymous
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
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.
J.G. Holland
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.
James Thurber
Modern kitchen - where the pot calls the kettle chartreuse.
Anonymous
Now here you see it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else you must run at least twice as fast as that!
Lewis Carroll
The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
Edward de Bono
The century on which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
Henry A. Wallace
The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh