Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

In short, N is Richardian if, and only if, N is not Richardian.

Serocki's Stricture: Marriage is always a bachelor's last option.

The fact that I was a bachelor provided two opportunities or two handles that they might get on me, namely, girls or boys.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Real love stories never have endings.

True love stories never have endings.

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

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

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Bagdikian's Observation: Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" on a ukelele.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. Business | Richard Branson

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

The debate rages on: Is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or lifetime is certain for those who are friends.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.