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G K Chesterton: The perplexity of...

G K Chesterton: The perplexity of...

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in...

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Agatha Christie: It is completely...

Agatha Christie: It is completely...

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

Source: The Murder...

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Robert Frost: Freud was way...

Robert Frost: Freud was way...

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each...

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Robert Frost: Friends make pretence...

Robert Frost: Friends make pretence...

Friends make pretence of following to the grave
But before one is in it, their minds are turned
And making the...

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Robert Frost: Earth's the right...

Robert Frost: Earth's the right...

Earth's the right place for love;
I don't know where it's likely to go better.


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Robert Frost: It should be...

Robert Frost: It should be...

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and...

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Robert Frost: Heaven gives its...

Robert Frost: Heaven gives its...

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those
Not in position to look too close.


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Robert Frost: I would have...

Robert Frost: I would have...

I would have written of me on my stone:
I had a lover's quarrel with the world.


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Robert Frost: I hold it...

Robert Frost: I hold it...

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

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Thornton Wilder: My advice to...

Thornton Wilder: My advice to...

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice-cream while it's on your plate, - that's my...

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Thornton Wilder: Never support two...

Thornton Wilder: Never support two...

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners --your lecherous liars and your miserly...

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Ogden Nash: I would live...

Ogden Nash: I would live...

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance/Were it not for making a living, which is rather a...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tears, idle tears,/I...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tears, idle tears,/I...

Tears, idle tears,/I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair,
Rise in the heart and...

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Alexander Pope: So much they...

Alexander Pope: So much they...

So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng
By chance go right, they purposely go...

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Billy Wilder: An audience is...

Billy Wilder: An audience is...

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the...

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Blind Lemon Johnson: Woman rocks the...

Blind Lemon Johnson: Woman rocks the...

Woman rocks the cradle and I declare she rules her home
Many man rocks some other man's baby and the fool thinks...

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Bessie Smith: I ain't good-lookin',...

Bessie Smith: I ain't good-lookin',...

I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.

Source: In Words of Love, by...

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George Carlin: Oh Beautiful for...

George Carlin: Oh Beautiful for...

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt...

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Will Rogers: The best thing...

Will Rogers: The best thing...

The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.

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Stanislaw Lec: At the beginning...

Stanislaw Lec: At the beginning...

At the beginning there was the Word -- at the end just the Cliche.

Source: In...

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