If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003
Archive
Quotes
What hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637Whatsoever is, is in God.
—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633The self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.
—al-Busiri, c. 1250Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.
—Sallust, c. 35 BCSick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1845Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
—Marty Feldman, 1969If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988