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Kingsley Amis: It scored right...

Kingsley Amis: It scored right...

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse, flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish...

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Mark Twain: The right word...

Mark Twain: The right word...

The right word may be effective but no word was ever as effective as rightly timed pause.

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Charles Buxton: In life, as...

Charles Buxton: In life, as...

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by...

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Charles Kingsley: We act as...

Charles Kingsley: We act as...

We act as though comfort luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is...

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Spilling your guts...

Spilling your guts...

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

Source: Social...

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Lifestyles and sex...

Lifestyles and sex...

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small...

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We are all...

We are all...

We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its...

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The senator might...

The senator might...

The senator might remember that the Evangelists had a more inspiring subject.

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New York City...

New York City...

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a...

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A man who...

A man who...

A man who is good enough to go to heaven, is good enough to be a clergyman.

Source:...

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For the parents...

For the parents...

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into...

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You see it's...

You see it's...

You see it's like this: boxing is just another kind of rhythm activity. Like all sports is based on rhythm. Dig: if...

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Simplicity is an...

Simplicity is an...

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

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A hypocrite despises...

A hypocrite despises...

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if...

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So have I...

So have I...

So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on...

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Night is the...

Night is the...

Night is the mother of thoughts.

Source: First Frutes.
-- John Florio, ( ...

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When you tell...

When you tell...

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his...

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A good part...

A good part...

A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening...

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RIBROASTER, n. Censorious...

RIBROASTER, n. Censorious...

RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another.

Source: The...

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