Famous Quotations by famous People.....7

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." - Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end." - Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." - Voltaire (1694-1778)
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." - Mae West (1892-1980)
"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." - Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
"No Sane man will dance." - Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Hell is a half-filled auditorium." - Robert Frost (1874-1963)
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you." - Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
"Vote early and vote often." - Al Capone (1899-1947)
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Hell is other people." - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." - Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavad Gita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion)
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." - Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate." - Thomas Jones
"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone (1899-1947)
"The gods too are fond of a joke." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting." - Gloria Leonard
"It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man." - Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." - Robert Orben
"The cynics are right nine times out of ten." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him." - Revelation 6:8
"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance." - Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"Plato was a bore." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Famous Quotations by famous People.....6

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"Hemingway was a jerk." - Harold Robbins
"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things." - Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)
"What about things like bullets?" - Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote (1981)
"How can I lose to such an idiot?" - A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)
"Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday." - Woody Allen (1935-)
"I don't feel good." - The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure." - Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)
"Men have become the tools of their tools." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant." - Richard J. Ferris, president of United Airlines
"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television." - Gore Vidal
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." - Woody Allen (1935-)
"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. - Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually." - Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me." - Charles William Stubbs
"Sanity is a madness put to good uses." - George Santayana (1863-1952)
"Imitation is the sincerest form of television." - Fred Allen (1894-1956)
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research." - Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
"Why don't you write books people can read?" - Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)