J D Salinger Famous Quotes
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
"Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry."
You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute.
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
J D Salinger Quotations
The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
W Somerset Maugham
One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.
Elmer Davis
To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.
Jim Beggs
"What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Don't steal. The government hates competition.
Anon
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden
"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."
Saul Bellow
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
Orson Welles
"Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal."
Sophocles