Original Article: http://dartreview.com/archives/2007/04/10/the_last_word.php
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