List of Quotes
A compilation of all my header quotes, in case you’re looking for one you remember seeing.
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.— Ogden Nash
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.— Mignon McLaughlin
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.— Thomas Mann
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.— Josh Billings
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.— Stephen King, On Writing
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.— Mahatma Ghandi
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.— Indian Proverb
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.— Jacquelyn Mitchard
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.— Virginia Woolf
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.— Chinese Proverb
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.— Groucho Marx
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.— Rita Rudner
I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.— Charles De Secondat
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.— John Steinbeck
If you believe everything you read, better not read.— Japanese Proverb
If you don’t risk anything you risk even more.— Erica Jong
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.— The Dalai Lama
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.— Leonard Bernstein
It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to paint it.— Steven Wright
Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.— Plato
Never judge a book by its movie.— J. W. Eagan
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.— Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Lion and the Mouse
No man is happy who does not think himself so.— Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
No wise man ever wished to be younger.— Jonathan Swift
Nothing matters but knowing nothing matters.— Fiyero - Wicked, the Musical
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.— Groucho Marx
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.— Doug Larson
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.— Arthur Schopenhauer
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.— Doug Larson
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.— Ben Stein
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.— Matthew Arnold, ‘God and the Bible,’ 1875
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.— Henry Stimson
The reverse side also has a reverse side.— Japanese Proverb
The saying “Getting there is half the fun” became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.— Henry J. Tillman
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.— Edwin Schlossberg
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.— George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” (1903), act 4
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about ‘and’.— Sir Arthur Eddington, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (A. L. Mackay), 1977
What’s the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.— George Asaf
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‘Did you sleep good?’ I said ‘No, I made a few mistakes.’— Steven Wright
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.— Spanish Proverb
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.— Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)
Writing well means never having to say, ‘I guess you had to be there.’— Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine, 07-10-2006
You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.— Irish Proverb