Famous Quotes Name C

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.

A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.

A love that can last forever takes but a second to come about.

Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

Our ego is our silent partner--too often with a controlling interest.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue they're called humorists.

Throwing a fastball to Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster.

He had so many irons in the fire that he was never able to forge any single one into a weapon with which to conquer his world.

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Never judge someone by who he's in love with judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.

Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated.

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

Persistence plus no dignity equals success.

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.