Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness.

You don't know love if you don't know Andre.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not.

We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other -- male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-PrTs: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5, 000 Gideon Bibles.

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Andrew is so incredibly reliable that almost any printing command will work, as long as it is long and complex enough...

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -- because they were too obvious.

Dare to be yourself.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.