Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santa Claus is watching!

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.

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

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

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.

Okay, there's a little girl down the street in pajamas and a Santa Claus hat dancing around her yard and singing about some damn moose... it's times like this that I really LOVE this neighbourhood!

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

I just remember George smiling and how happy he was.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

George Orwell was an optimist.

Santa's elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?;"Arlo Guthrie

Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

People think my friend George is weird because he wears sideburns...behind his ears. I think he's weird because he wears false teeth...with braces on them.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Life is neither a spectacle nor a feast, it is predicament.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.

Joyce: How was your Christmas? Me: It was okay, There was one thing that I wanted that I didn't get. Joyce: What was that? Me: Sex. Joyce: I don't think Santa Claus could help you with that one. Me: No, but Mrs. Claus can!

George It was the greatest feeling I ever had. Followed abruptly by the worst feeling I ever had.

George The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.