Natasha's favorite quotations
"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
Oscar Wilde
If you've already browsed my website you've probably noticed that I have numerous quotations throughout my site. I don't use them, because I have nothing to say myself. It's just that the older I get the more I understand that very few original thoughts come to my mind. The majority of my thoughts have already been articulated by somebody else and it's fun to find phrases by other people that are completely in tune with my own feelings on the subject, whatever that subject might be.
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“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.” James Dean
"Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead." James Thurber
“I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Voltaire
"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience." Oscar Wilde
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.” Oscar Wilde
"Women's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking." Rupert Hughes
“A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.” Buddha
“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.” Oscar Wilde
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.” Oscar Wilde
“It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.” François de la Rochefoucauld
“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” François de la Rochefoucauld
"What is your hosts’ purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were the their sole purpose, they’d have simply sent Champagne and women over to your place by taxi" P.J. O’Rourke
“The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.” Unknown
“One reassuring thing about modern art is that things can't be as bad as they are painted.” Unknown
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands." Douglas Adams
"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving." Russell Green
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein
"I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?" Paul Merton
"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves." August Strindberg
"Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons." Letter to the editor, The Advocate
"If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur." Doug Larson
"It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother." Charles Pierce
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent." RD Laing
"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." Henny Youngman
"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza." Dave Barry
"When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities." Matt Groening
"The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable." Oscar Wilde
"A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." Herm Albright
"I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house." Lewis Grizzard
"The nice thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing quite respectable." Paul Dean
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." Winston Churchill
"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money." G. Gordon Liddy
"All good things in life are either immoral, fattening or overpriced." Rajavi Kejriwal
"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes." Frieda Norris
"Seven out of ten people suffer from hemmorhoids. Does this mean that the other three enjoy it?" Sal Davino
"Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake." WC Fields
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." George Bernard Shaw
"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target." Ashleigh Brilliant
"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind." Humprey Bogart
"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on." Joe E Lewis
"An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex." Edgar Wallace
"Criticism is something you can avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." Unknown
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." Harry S Truman
“Every good painter paints what he is.” Jackson Pollack
"Who among us has not gazed at a painting of Jackson Pollack's and thought: What a piece of crap?" Rob Long
"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course." George Bernard Shaw
"Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women." Elsa Schiaparelli
"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers." W. Somerset Maugham
"All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others." Chad A. Gamble
"Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often." Mae West
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill
"If we had no faults, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others." François de La Rochefoucauld
"We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine." François de La Rochefoucauld
