Kurt Vonnegut Jr Famous Quotes
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
"Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours."
"All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed."
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh.
"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything."
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr Quotations
"The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit."
Jimmy Breslin
"He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss."
Niccolo Machiavelli
"'Humph' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he."
Robert Smith Surtees
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
Herb Caen
"When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants."
Saskya Pandita
"After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar."
David Assael
'Resource-constrained environment' are fancy Pentagon words that mean there isn't enough money to go around.
John W Vessey Jr
"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories."
Arthur C Clarke
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beecher
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon I