Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Why be a man when you can be a success

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

War is like love it always finds a way.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Right is its own defense.

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

I don't regard Brecht as a man of iron-gray purpose and intellect, I think he is a theatrical whore of the first quality.

Intelligence is not to make any mistakes, but to see quickly how to make them good.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the FOUNDING of a bank?

He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.

Grub first, then ethics.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

First the grub, then the morals.

Righteous people have no sense of humor.

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.