Charles Bukowski Famous Quotes



You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

"I was no petty thief, I wanted the world or nothing."


Charles Bukowski Quotations






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"My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants."
J Brotherton

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
Stephen S Wise

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
Carl Sandburg

"Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs"
Spike Milligan

Fortune helps the brave.
Terence

"A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults."
Charles Kingsley

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
Kim Hubbard

Give yourself something to work toward--constantly.
Mary Kay Ash

"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society."
Daniel Webster

"If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings."
Lisa Moriyama