A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

Clouds on clouds in volumes driven. Curtain round the vault of heaven.

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

My audience knows me, and I wear beautiful clothes as a badge of honor. They remember where I came from.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

Industrialisation is necessary. But acquisition is by no means the only avenue through which it can be achieved. The Cochin Airport is a prime example of this. Instead of choosing to acquire the land, the State asked the private parties to negotiate with the landowners directly. The State merely acted as an arbitrator.

My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played.

My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

I love Kristin Wigg. I love Amy Poelher.

We're professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there's some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that's a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.

My favorite drink is sake.

Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I grew up with adored LSU, including my mom. But I chose to come to Mississippi State because I wanted to start a new tradition instead of perpetuating an established one.

The quality will remain when the price is forgotten.