Permanent famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

  • The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

  • Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

  • I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.

  • If I must have an ill, may it be real, That I may meet it eye to eye and fight, And wheresoever it may strength reveal Get after it with all my main and might. The woe that but impends and wears the mind With worry deep and most vexatious care, Is harder fighting than the realler kind, For when you come to strike—it isn't there!

  • Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goals clearly in sight.

  • The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.

  • A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

  • I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite.

  • Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.