Kingsley Amis Famous Quotes
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Kingsley Amis Quotations
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle
"The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision."
Henry Kissinger
"If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists."
Antoine De SaintExupery
"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."
Felix Frankfurter
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Simone de Beauvoir
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best."
Margaret Hilda Thatcher
"I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."
Lucille Ball
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
John Hay
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
Mark Twain