On Dining
In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm
to the lady he escorts—it is unusual to offer both.
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), British author, mathematician, clergyman.
I’m a man more dined against than dining.
Maurice Bowra (1898–1971), warden of Wadham College, Oxford. |
On Love
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand
only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because
I love. Everything is united by it alone.
Leo Tolstoy ,
Russian novelist and philosopher |
On Friendship
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are
too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only
thing that endears us to our friends.
Erica Jong
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship
plus sex and minus reason.
Mason Cooley
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On Apparel
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence
on society.
Mark Twain |
On Making Conversation
A gossip is one who talks to you about others, a bore is one
who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist
is one who talks to you about yourself.
Lisa Kirk
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak
and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln |
On Paying Compliments "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't
it."
Groucho Marx My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth, I dare
say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said
it, which is much more important.
Oscar Wilde, in 'A Woman of No Importance'
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On God: SAY NOTHING. On
Time When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems
like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems
like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein On Homer's Iliad This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should
be thrown with great force. Dorothy Parker On
War I think war is a dangerous place. George W.
Bush, President of the United States of America On Britain Britain "is not worth an old shoe" Mohammed
Saeed al-Sahaf, Former Iraqi Information Minister On the USA Say less than nothing. On Life Razors pain you; Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give;
Gas smells awful; You might as well live. Dorothy Parker
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