Jean Giraudoux Famous Quotes
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
"A golf course is the epitome of all that is transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible."
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Jean Giraudoux Quotations
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
"See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way..."
Exodus 2320 Bible
"Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision."
Blake Clark
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W C Fields
"Sometimes, big trees grow out of acorns. I think I heard that from a squirrel."
Jerry Coleman
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.
William Seward Burroughs
"Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds."
Black Elk
"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