"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I have done it a thousand times." --Mark Twain
"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining." --Jeff Raskin
"Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence of it in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. It would not leave them narrow-minded and bigoted." --Thoreau
"An intellectual hate is the worst." --William Butler Yeats
"Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape." --Unknown
"Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another." --Ambrose Bierce
"Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry." --J.D. Salinger; The Catcher In The Rye
"In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others." --Andre Maurois
"To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead." --Samuel Butler
"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse." --Edmund Burke
"When you know yourself, you know life." --Fiona Apple
"There is no finish to a war." --Ernest Hemingway
"For in its innermost depths, youth is lonelier than old age." --Unknown
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --A. Conan Doyle
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." --Gilbert Chesterton
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest." --Tom Stoppard
"Every woman is wrong until she cries." --Unknown
"Everyone makes mistakes. It is what you do afterwards that counts." --Unknown
"Conquer yourself not the world." --Descartes
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end." --Igor Stravinsky
"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful." --John Wooden
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." --Malcolm Forbes
"The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on." --Frank Zappa
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." --Charlie Chaplin
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not." --Andre Gide
"Some books make me wanna go adventuring, others feel that they have saved me the trouble." --Ashleigh Brilliant
"Life is moderately good play with a badly written third act." --Truman Capote
"All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape." --A.C. Benson
"A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist." --Steward Alsop
"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth." --Alfred Adler
