people quotes

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
-- George Eliot

Mother told me to be good but she's been wrong before.

You give me space to belong to myself yet without separating me
from your own life. May it all turn out to your happiness.
-- Goethe

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following:
Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a
rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when
swerving away from the rabbit hits a pedestrian.
-- Frank Herbert, "The White Plague"

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes
may not be the same.
-- George Bernard Shaw

If people see that you mean them no harm, they'll never hurt you, nine
times out of ten!

Be careful what you set your heart on -- for it will surely be yours.
-- James Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name"

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
-- Joseph Conrad

After all, it is only the mediocre who are always at their best.
-- Jean Giraudoux

"All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific."
-- Jane Wagner

Only fools are quoted.
-- Anonymous

If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
-- Freeman Dyson

To be great is to be misunderstood.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to
boot yourself in the posterior.
-- A.J. Liebling, "The Press"

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
-- Publilius Syrus

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal
that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they
ought to be.
-- William Hazlitt

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a "realist," he
is preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed of doing.
-- Sydney Harris

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men
have mediocrity thrust upon them.
-- Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"

Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our
pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs
and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious,
inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us
sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness
and acts that are contrary to habit...
-- Hippocrates "The Sacred Disease"