Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

I am not now, and never have been, a girl friend of Henry Kissinger.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory -- the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.

It is now 10 p.m. Do you know where Henry Kissinger is?;"Elizabeth Carpenter

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, ''All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.'' And they did.

There was definitely frustration about Henri's non-appearance. We weren't happy about it.

I'm really happy to have a guy like Brook around, who knows me and what I teach. He'll do great.

Jimmy: "What if the sky was pink?" Adam: "You would wonder what it was like if it was blue. This is it.

No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -;"Douglas Adams, "Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy

Active minds that think and study, Like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Did you ever notice the people who are most adamantly against abortions are people so ugly you wouldn't want to touch them in the first place?;"George Carlin

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?;"Thomas Henry Huxley

Do you want me to suck yours?;"Janet Henry, referring to a lollipop

The Russians love Brooke Shield because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

Brooke's Law: Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.

Who is this God person anyway?;"Douglas Adams

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

Majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But -- like other precious, sacred things, such as the home and the family -- it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stonewashed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And -- since women are a majority of the population -- we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Friends are born, not made.

Brook's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.