Joseph Heller Famous Quotes



He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."

"Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure."

"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."


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You can never step into the same river for new waters are always flowing on to you.
Heraclitus

"What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one's faith How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches the free grace of God through Christ as the hope of sinners If we were to rely on our works--my God, what would become of us"
George Frederick Handel

"Seek simplicity, and distrust it."
Alfred North Whitehead

"Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first."
Peter Ustinov

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

"When the fox preaches, look to the geese."
German proverb

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Heywood Broun

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Theodore Isaac Rubin

"Frankly, I think the chances of having a happy childhood while you're still a kid going through it are pretty slim."
Edith Ann

"Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on."
Steven Patrick Callahan