Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington. (Reply to President Ronald Reagan in defense of Palestinian terrorist)

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

Shawn: "You are the coolst girl!' Heidi: "The what?" Shawn: "The coolst! Heidi: "It's the coolest, not coolst!

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

What is life but a seires of inspired follies The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance it doesn't come every day.

It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

George May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face. Fred And may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.

I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

I'm not a teacher only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead-ahead of myself as well as you.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

I just remember George smiling and how happy he was.

Shaw's Principle: Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

So. The time has come for me to get my kite flying, stretch out in the sun, kick off my shoes, and speak my piece. 'The days of struggle are over,' I should be able to say. 'I can look back now and tell myself I don't have a single regret.' But I do. Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. 'Harpo, my boy,' he said, 'I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember.' My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. 'Yes, sir' I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

I think it's very exciting. Bernard is very happy about it and so is Roy. It's fantastic.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

The love of money is the root of all virtue.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

Give women the vote, and in five years, there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

George Orwell was an optimist.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

While Provolt and Shawn were on a midnight cruise of town... Manager of Bill's Super Value: "Okay, boys, what have you done with the turkeys?" After the manager had left: Provolt: "What did he think we did? Shove 'em up our shirts?

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

Mike: Oww, Shawna's abusing me! Mr. Neff: Keep up the good work, Shawna.