quotes on writing

Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb



Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ~Albert Einstein



When it comes to exploring the sea of love, I prefer buoys. ~Andrew G. Dehel



Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose. ~Ulysses S. Grant



The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. ~Alice Walker



If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi



I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality. ~P.J. O'Rourke



The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning. ~Author Unknown



Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ~Alan Coren



Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. ~E.L. Konigsburg



Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence. ~Rosalynn Carter



We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a "flush." It is enough to make one ashamed of the species. ~Mark Twain



If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas? ~Don Meredith



My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God, and I didn't. ~Author Unknown



Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!



People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. ~Elizabeth Drew, The New Yorker, 16 February 1987



And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks. ~John Taylor



Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb



When I grow up I want to be a little boy. ~Joseph Heller, Something Happened, 1974