The Last Word

By Courtney Andree | Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Be courteous, be obliging, but don’t give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.
–George Eliot

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.
–Jim Henson

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
–Albert Einstein

Didn’t come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
–Hank Aaron

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.
–H.L. Mencken

Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.
—The Talmud

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
–Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
—Democritus

Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it’s something we had to prepare for.
–Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.
—Ernest Hemingway

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
–Cornelius Tacitus

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
—Katharine Hepburn

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
–George Herbert

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
–Salvador Dali

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
–Alfred Hitchcock

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
—Ogden Nash

The women’s movement hasn’t changed my sex life. It wouldn’t dare.
—Zsa Zsa Gabor

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
—John Ruskin

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
–Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
—Desiderius Erasmus

The Last Word

Article Tools

Related Articles