Don Barthelme Famous Quotes
"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love."
Don Barthelme Quotations
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
Leonardo DaVinci
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.
Enoch Powell
"No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons."
Croesus of Lydia
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Scott Adams
"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."
Paul Aubuchon
It's what we learn after we think we know it all that counts.
Kim Hubbard
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection."
Charles Robert Darwin
Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.
Harvey Mindess