In a true democracy, everyone can be upper-class and live in Connecticut.
—Lisa Birnbach, 1980
Archive
Quotes
Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998The bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.
—Jane Austen, 1804Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1923I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCSee one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
—George Eliot, 1876Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCI am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773