people quotes

A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The
green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that
grew in the ears themselvse, stuck out on either side like turn signals
indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the
bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled
with disapproval and potato chip crumbs. In the shadow under the green visor
of the cap Ignatius J. Reilly's supercilious blue and yellow eyes looked down
upon the other people waiting under the clock at the D.H. Holmes department
store, studying the crowd of people for signs of bad taste in dress. Several
of the outfits, Ignatius noticed, were new enough and expensive enough to be
properly considered offenses against taste and decency. Possession of
anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and
geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul.
-- John Kennedy Toole, "Confederacy of Dunces"

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy; but to be angry with the right
person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose
and in the right way -- that is not easy.
-- Aristotle

Why be difficult when, with a bit of effort, you could be impossible?

The difference between a good haircut and a bad one is seven days.

Distance doesn't make you any smaller, but it does make you part of a
larger picture.

"I've seen, I SAY, I've seen better heads on a mug of beer"
-- Senator Claghorn

If you're careful enough, nothing bad or good will ever happen to you.

"A penny for your thoughts?"
"A dollar for your death."
-- The Odd Couple

If we were meant to get up early, God would have created us with alarm clocks.

That's always the way when you discover something new; everyone thinks
you're crazy.
-- Evelyn E. Smith

I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas, fils

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far
as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical
way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
-- T.S. Eliot, essay on Baudelaire

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you
really make them think they'll hate you.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
-- Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be
devoured.
-- Konrad Adenauer