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The test of...

The test of...

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

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So long as...

So long as...

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the...

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It isn't until...

It isn't until...

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a...

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Bond smoked like...

Bond smoked like...

Bond smoked like Peter Lorre, drank like Humphrey Bogart, ate like Sydney Greenstreet, used up girls like Errol Flynn...

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A pleasing land...

A pleasing land...

A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was,
Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye;
And of gay castles in the...

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Richard Buckminster Fuller: Parents are usually...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: Parents are usually...

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well...

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George Washington Carver: Ninety-nine percent of...

George Washington Carver: Ninety-nine percent of...

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

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Isaac Newton: If I have...

Isaac Newton: If I have...

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than any other...

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Man Ray: I paint what...

Man Ray: I paint what...

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious...

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David Ogilvy: The best ideas...

David Ogilvy: The best ideas...

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

Source: In...

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Harold S Geneen: It is better...

Harold S Geneen: It is better...

It is better to take over and build upon an existing business than start a new one.

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Shirley MacLaine: The if the...

Shirley MacLaine: The if the...

The if the talent or individuality is there, it should be expressed. If it doesn't find its way out into the air, it...

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David Cronenberg: Censors tend to...

David Cronenberg: Censors tend to...

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

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Steven Wright: What's another word...

Steven Wright: What's another word...

What's another word for Thesaurus?

Source: commedian
-- Steven Wright, (Dec 6...

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Ray Kroc: It was not...

Ray Kroc: It was not...

It was not her sex appeal but the obvious relish with which she devoured the hamburger that made my pulse begin to...

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Christopher Fry: Between<br>Our birth and...

Christopher Fry: Between
Our birth and...

Between
Our birth and death we may touch understanding
As a moth brushes a window with its...

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Maria Edgeworth: When one illusion...

Maria Edgeworth: When one illusion...

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I...

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Jean Paul: Humankind's chief fault...

Jean Paul: Humankind's chief fault...

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

Source: In The...

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Elie Wiesel: Not to transmit...

Elie Wiesel: Not to transmit...

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

Source: In Christian Science...

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Italo Calvino: When politicians and...

Italo Calvino: When politicians and...

When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign -- a bad sign...

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