QUOTATIONS
LOVE
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." (Henry David Thoreau)
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for falling in love." (Albert Einstein)
"I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally." (Zelda Fizgerald)
"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known." (Walt Disney)
"In this world of extremes, we can only love too little." (Rich Cannarella)
"Intense love does not measure, it just gives." (Mother Teresa)
"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens." (BAHA'U'LLAH, 1817-92)
"It isn't possible to love and part ... You can transmutate love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal." (E.M. FORESTER)
"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so." ( DAVID GRAYSON)
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction."
"Love each other or perish."
"Love has reasons which reason cannot understand."
"Love is a perky little elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun."
"Love is blind--and your cane is pink."
"Love is blind." ( Geoffrey Chaucer , 1343-1400, Canterbury Tales: The Merchant's Tale )
"Love is blind. That is why he always proceeds by touch." ( French Proverb )
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." ( Alexander Smith )
"Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come." ( Matt Groening , 1954-)
"Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence." ( Vincent van Gogh )
"Love is the only rational act." ( Stephen Levine )
LIFE
"... take any form, drive me mad only do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you." ( Emily Brontë )
"A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step." ( Mao Tse-tung (Zedong) , 1893-1976)
"Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word." ( Michel Houellebecq , 'Extension du domaine de la lutte')
"All I need is Vaseline and the will to go on." ( Josh C. Collins , life motto)
"As regards the celebrated 'struggle for life,' it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality--where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power." ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche )
"As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins." ( Albert Schweitzer )
"As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way." ( Jack Handey )
"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath." ( Michael Caine )
"Between the penis and the mathematical one ... there exists nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum." ( Louis-Ferdinand Céline )
"Cry who will, laugh who can." ( Chinese Proverb )
LOYALITY
"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful." ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche )
"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false; a gift confers no rights." ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche )
"We must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang seperately." ( Benjamin Franklin )
"When you are down and out something always turns up--and it is usually the noses of your friends." ( George Orson Welles )
LONILINESS
"Be good and you will be lonesome." ( Carl Sandburg )
"Being alone is in the deepest sense the human condition. Loneliness is the disease of feeling isolated, cut off from human contact and human warmth. Some people battle all their lives against this poignant emotion, struggling constantly to come to terms with the immutable fact of their existence: that all human beings are separate, one from another, and will remain so all their lives; each sealed within a thin veneer of skin. If this struggle is successful, the individual ultimately transcends his physical limitations and becomes most himself precisely because he is closely bound to others." ( Eric P. Mosse , The Conquest of Loneliness )
" Liverpool can be very lonely on a Saturday night, and it's only Thursday morning." ( Paul Angelis , as Ringo, Yellow Submarine , 1968)
"The injustice of it is almost perfect! The wrong people going hungry, the wrong people being loved, the wrong people dying! Was I really wrong to believe that there's a--a kind of--burning virility of mind and spirit that looks for something as powerful as itself? The heaviest, strongest creatures in this world seem to be the loneliest." ( John Osborne , Look Back in Anger)
"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters." ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche )
FRIENDS
"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." ( James Douglas Morrison , lead singer of The Doors)
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." ( Mohandas Gandhi , In Search of the Supreme )
"A true friend stabs you in the front." ( Oscar Wilde )
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." ( Albert Camus )
"Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." ( Anais Nin )
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." ( Anonymous )
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to--letting a person be what he really is." ( James Douglas Morrison , lead singer of The Doors)
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" ( Clive Staples Lewis )
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche )
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." ( Walt Whitman
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." ( Samuel Johnson )
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." ( George Washington )
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche )
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." ( Chinese Proverb )
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche )
"The only way to have friends is to be one." ( Ralph Waldo Emerson )
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." ( Mark Twain )
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." ( William Butler Yeats )
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." ( Anonymous )
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." ( Charles Caleb Colton )
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." ( G. Randolf )
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." ( Gore Vidal )
FREEDOM
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." ( General Michel Aoun )
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." ( Raymonde Uy )
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu©k.' 'What the fu©k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." ( Curtis Armstrong , Risky Business , 1983)
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." ( Henry Louis Mencken )
"Give me liberty or give me death." ( Patrick Henry )
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." ( Emma Lazarus )
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." ( Patrick Henry )
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." ( Thomas Paine )
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." ( Marquis de Lafayette )
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." ( James Madison )
FEAR
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." ( Ralph Waldo Emerson )
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." ( John Ronald Reuel Tolkien )
"Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over motivation - leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind." ( Robert M. Pirsig , Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance )
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." ( Oscar Wilde )
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." ( G. Gordon Liddy )
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." ( James Douglas Morrison , lead singer of The Doors)
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." ( Usman Asif )
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." ( Gary Busey )
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." ( Rabbi Harold Kushner )
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." ( Robert A. Heinlein
FATE
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche )
FORGIVENESS
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." ( Paul Boese )
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche , The Will to Power , 1888)
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." ( William Blake )
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." ( Alexander Pope )
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." ( Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire , 1694-1778)
MARRIAGE
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." ( Cher )
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." ( Chris Rock )
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche )
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." ( Lionel Atwill )
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." ( Isadora Duncan )
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same." ( Oscar Wilde )
"By the time you swear you're his, / Shivering and sighing, / And he vows his passion is / Infinite, undying - / Lady, make a note of this: / One of you is lying." ( Dorothy Parker , 1893-1967, US writer)
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." ( Andy Warhol , Andy Warhol's Exposures , 1980)
"For our anniversary, I had a certificate drawn up that states I can never leave [Angelina] for eternity. It has the seal of the great state of Louisiana on it. I signed it in my own blood with a paintbrush." ( Billy Bob Thornton , Jane , September, 2001)
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." ( Catherine Deneuve )
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." ( Ali bin Abi Talib , the Fourth Caliph of Islam)
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." ( Marlon Brando )
"I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere. Crippity crappity creepies." ( Vincent Gallo )
"I had a nurse come...and draw some of my blood. I painted some pictures for Angie [Jolie] in my blood. We're not the types to give each other candy or a bunch of flowers." ( Billy Bob Thornton , New York Post , August 27, 2001 )
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." ( Groucho Marx )
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." ( Arthur Lotti )
"If you take a shower with your boyfriend, I guarantee by the time you step out of that shower, your breasts will be sparkling clean." ( Sarah Silverman )
"In married life three is company and two is none." ( Oscar Wilde , The Importance of Being Earnest )
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche )
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." ( Dorothy Parker , 1893-1967, US writer)
Leadership
"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning." ( Warren G. Bennis )
"I try to keep in touch with the details . . . I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening." ( Keith Rupert Murdoch , media mogul, 1931-)
"If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality." ( Benito Mussolini , his strategy for motivating the masses)
"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example -- and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved." ( Keith Rupert Murdoch , media mogul, 1931-)
"Inventories can be managed, but people must be led." ( H. Ross Perot )
"It's better for a lion to lead lambs than for a lamb to lead lions." ( Arthur Lotti )
"Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line." ( Warren G. Bennis )
"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions." ( Harold S. Geneen )
"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it." ( Marian Anderson )
"The day people stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them." ( Colin Powell , My American Journey )
WISDOM
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" ( Lewis Carroll , Through the Looking Glass )
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." ( Roald Dahl )
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." ( Saadi )
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." ( Donald G. Smith )
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche )
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche )
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." ( H. H. Williams )
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche , Human, All Too Human )
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai ." ( George Orson Welles )
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere." ( Beck Hansen
WORLD
"Contempt for the world is what allows me to continue living in it." ( Matthew Lotti )
"High-rises are the Pyramids of our time." ( William Lim , Chinese architect)
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ( Anne Frank )
"If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you." ( Thomas Friedman , global analyst for the New York Times )
"If you had to choose three words to distill the essence of Britain , America and Canada , the words would be island, frontier, and survival." ( Margaret Atwood )
"Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable." ( Henry Louis Mencken )
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell." ( Aldous Huxley )
"Private property created crime." ( Jenny Holzer )
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." ( Albert Einstein )
"The United Nations is presently unable break up a skirmish between two warring Girl Scout factions, so how they're supposed to aid the world is an even bigger conundrum." ( Arthur Lotti )
WORK
"... we wise grown ups here at the company go gliding in and out all day long, scaring each other at our desks and cubicles and water coolers and trying to evade the people who frighten us. We come to work, have lunch, and go home. We goose-step in and goose-step out, change our partners and wander all about, sashay around for a pat on the head, and promenade home till we all drop dead." ( Joseph Heller , Something Happened , 1974)
"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment." ( Robert Benchley )
"Arbeit macht das Leben süß. (Work makes life sweet.)" ( German Proverb )
"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done." ( Carl Friedrich Gauss , 1777- 1855, while working, when informed that his wife is dying)
"Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them." ( Jean Baudrillard )
"I believe that this instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply a fear of the mob. The mob (the thought runs) are such low animals that they would be dangerous if they had leisure; it is safer to keep them too busy to think." ( George Orwell , Down and Out in Paris and London )
"I had a divorce to pay for, frankly." ( Billy Bob Thornton , on why he agreed to appear in Armageddon, The London Independent , September 30, 2001 )
"If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but then, many reputable trades are quite useless." ( George Orwell , Down and Out in Paris and London )
"It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing." ( Albert Einstein )
"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?" ( Ronald Reagan )
WIT
"A witty saying proves nothing." ( Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire , 1694-1778)
"Houseless, adj. Having paid all taxes on household goods." ( Ambrose Bierce )
"Spice is the spice of life." ( William Thomas )
"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so." ( François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld , 1616-80)
"Why was I with her? She reminds me of you. In fact, she reminds me more of you than you do!" ( Groucho Marx )
"Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse." ( Groucho Marx )
"Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back." ( Geoffrey Bocca )
"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion." ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche )
MUSIC
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." ( Aldous Huxley )
"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger." ( Dan Rather )
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." ( Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire , 1694-1778)
"Every musical phrase for me has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful." ( Itzhak Perlman )
"Evil men have no songs. How is it then, that the Russians have songs? " ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche )
"I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician." ( Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart )
"I really like performing when I'm mad. And I'm always mad at boys." ( Avril Lavigne )
"If Goethe is a transposed painter and Schiller a transposed orator, then Wagner is a transposed actor." ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche )
"If music be the food of love, play on." ( William Shakespeare )
"In music the passions enjoy themselves." ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche )
WOMEN
"A beautiful woman is one I notice; a charming woman is one who notices me." ( John Erskine )
"A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment." ( Carl Gustav Jung , in his last interview)
"A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." ( Nancy Reagan )
"A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience." ( Wallis Simpson , Duchess of Windsor, 1896-1986)
"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent." ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche )
"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included." ( Karl Marx )
"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied." ( Oscar Wilde )
"Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too." ( Henry Louis Mencken )
"Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs." ( Sir Noël Coward )
"Christ, there were women everywhere and over 1/2 of them looked good enough to fuck, and there was nothing you could do - just look at them." ( Charles Bukowski )
MONEY
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness." ( Charles Dickens , 1812-70)
"Anyone who dies with more than $1.15 to his name is a jerk." ( Errol Flynn )
"Groveling is wrong for the soul, like grappling with whores in a drugstore." ( Hunter S. Thompson )
"I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?" ( Tom Hanks , on coming to grips with his $20 million-per-picture fee, Talk , November 2000)
"I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of supreme poverty." ( Groucho Marx )
"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers." ( Herman Melville , Moby Dick )
"Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all." ( Henry Ford )
"Money is a poor man's credit card." ( Marshall McLuhan )
"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service." ( Henry Ford )
"Where wealth accumulates, men decay." ( Oliver Goldsmith )
FAILURE
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." ( James Joyce )
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." ( Mel Ziegler , founder of Banana Republic)
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." ( Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach )
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." ( Noam Chomsky , from The Toronto Star , March 23, 2004 )
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." ( Gene Wilder )
"Failure is not an option!" ( Ed Harris , as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13 )
"I haven't failed, I just found 100,000 ways that don't work." ( Albert Einstein )
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." ( Wolfgang Puck , restauranteur)
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." ( Louis-Ferdinand Céline )
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." ( Muhammad Ali )
FOOLISHNESS
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." ( Douglas Adams )
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." ( William Shakespeare )
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." ( Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller , 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans . Act iii. Sc. 6. )
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( William Thomas )
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." ( Alexander Pope )
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." ( Chinese Proverb )
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" ( Herman Melville , Moby Dick )
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." ( Dean Koontz , Seize the Night )
"I figured I would have to tell someone to kiss my ass before it was all over, and I have -- twice." ( Billy Bob Thornton , on his first visit to Cannes , US Weekly , May 28, 2001 )
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." ( Edger Allen Poe )