Original Article: http://dartreview.com/archives/2005/10/07/the_last_word.php
Friday, October 7, 2005
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
—Daphne du Maurier
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
—Fran Lebowitz
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
—Franklin P. Adams
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
—Sir Winston Churchill
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
—Al Capone
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
—J. Paul Getty
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
—John Lehman
The world breaks everyone and afterward are many strong in the broken places. But those that it cannot break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.
—Ernest Hemingway
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
—George Herbert
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
—Oscar Wilde
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
—Bert Leston Taylor
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
—Ovid
Idealism is what proceeds experience; cynicism is what follows.
—David T. Wolf
Equal opportunity means that everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
—Laurence J. Peter
In the long run, we are all dead.
—John Maynard Keynes
The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
—Michael Friedman
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
—John Blake
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see, and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
—Joan Didion
A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.
—The Rev. Edward A. Malloy
I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.
—Adrienne E. Gusoff
I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi, May 1940
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.
—Michel de Montaigne
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
—Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
Our greatest battles are those with our own minds.
—Jameson Frank
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
—Dick Cavett
College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.
—John Cage