Other People's Words...
After reading Robert Fulghum's book, Words
I Wish I Wrote, I realized just how many quotes I consider important to my
sanity. Welcome to my collection.
Friendship/Relationships/Gender
Wars
Cats/Music (the finer
things in life)
Books and cats and
fair-haired little girls make the best furnishings for a room. - French proverb
Cat people are different,
to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with
a cat running their lives? - Louis J. Camuti
Cats seem to go on the
principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. - Joseph Wood
Krutch
Free to a good home -
female cat or husband. Husband says either he goes or cat goes. Cat fixed,
husband isn't. - Ad in the Flint, Michigan Weekly World News
I got rid of my husband.
The cat was allergic.
I have studied many
philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. -
Hippolyte Taine
I love cats because I
enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. - Jean
Cocteau
I put down my book, The
Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it
with her rough pink tongue. Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it
appears you have already read it. She looks up and give me her full gaze. Don't
be ridiculous, she purrs, I wrote it. - Dilys Laing
If animals could speak
the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare
grace of never saying a word too much. - Mark Twain
Little one, I would like
to see anyone -- prophet, king or god -- persuade a thousand cats to do
anything at the same time. - Neil Gamin, A Dream of a Thousand Cats
Love to eat them
mousies, Mousies what I love to eat. Bite they little heads off... Nibble on
they tiny feet. - B. Kliban
Music is God's gift to
man, the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to
heaven. - Latitia Elizabeth Landon
Music was my refuge. I
could crawl into the space between notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya
Angelou
Music washes away from
the soul the dust of every day life. - Berthold Auerbach
Never try to outstubborn
a cat. - Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
Of all the creatures in
the world, cats an' women has the hardest time.
One is never sure,
watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste, or a
trial run for the jugular. - Helen Thomson
Sometimes even music
can't substitute for tears. - Paul Simon
The cat has too much
spirit to have no heart. - Ernest Menaul
The notes I handle no
better than many pianists, But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where
the art resides! - Artur Schnabel
There are two means of
refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer
There is no snooze
button on a cat who wants breakfast.
With the qualities of
cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many
of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats? - Fernand Mery
Women, poets, and
especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their
sensitive nervous systems. - Helen M. Winslow
You will always be lucky
if you know how to make friends with strange cats. - Colonial American proverb
Television/Movies/Books
A book is a mirror: If
an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out. - G. C.
Lichtenberg
Always read stuff that
will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. - P. J. O'Rourke
Everything that is
written merely to please the author is worthless. - Blaise Pascal
How do you put on a
meaningful drama or documentary that is adult, incisive, probing, when every
fifteen minutes the proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with
toilet paper? - Rod Serling
Imitation is the
sincerest form of television. - Fred Allen
Television is an
invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you
would not have in your home. - David Frost
The difference between
fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense. - Tom Clancy
There is a young and
impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on
to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment. - Joan Ganz Cooney
What bothers me about TV
is that it tends to take our minds off our minds. - Robert Orben
What I like in a good
author is not what he says, but what he whispers. - Logan Pearsall Smith
When you reread a
classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in
you than there was before. - Clifton Fadiman
X-rated movies are all
alike... the only thing they leave to the imagination is the plot.
Random
A billion hours ago,
human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A
billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning. - 1996 Coca-Cola Company annual
report
I think there are only
three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study
this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. - Gerald Early
Ice hockey combines the
best features of figure skating and World War II. - Alfred Hitchcock
"Is it true what
the old man had said, that everything evil begins with an forgotten
longing?" "No, it begins even earlier, with a disappointed
hope."
It is not certain that
everything is uncertain. - Blaise Pascal
It is the same breeze
which lifts girl's skirts that blows sand in your eyes.
May this continent, the
last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind. -
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, 1973, on Antartica
Nothing is more
difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. - Napoleon I
One of the advantages of
being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A.A.
Milne
Something is wrong.
What? I don't know, which is part of what's wrong. - Jeff Sudol
Sometimes the magic
works; sometimes it don't. - "Little Big Man"
The hardest thing to
understand in the world is the income tax. – Albert Einstein
There is no freedom
without responsibility. - Mom
This is the way the
world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper. - T S Eliot, The Hollow Men
When buying a used car,
punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there`s
a good chance the transmission is shot. - Larry Lujack
When it came to
slaughtering sacred cows with such crude yet perfect musical precision, there
was no one better than Frank. I wonder what songs he's teaching the angels
right now? Good luck God! You've got your hands full this time. - Terry Gilliam
on Frank Zappa
When the minority
becomes the majority it is time to change sides. - Mark Twain
When you are standing on
the edge of a cliff, a step forward is not progress.
Words are among one of
the greatest ways to express our soul. Sadly, they are also one of the most
misinterpreted too.