Art Buchwald Famous Quotes
The best things in life aren't things.
"Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.'"
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
Art Buchwald Quotations
"I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway."
Josh Billings
Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
James Ling
"I ask, Who are the militia They consist now of the whole people, except for a few public officers."
George Mason
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Euripides
"The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Eugene McCarthy
"Never trust anybody who says 'trust me.' Except just this once, of course. - from Steel Beach"
John Varley
"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
Kahlil Gibran
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd."
Anon