Kurt Vonnegut Famous Quotes
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything."
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative."
"New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become."
"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I dont know what can be done to fix it. This is it Only nut cases want to be president."
"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."
"One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
Kurt Vonnegut Quotations
Even God cannot change the past.
Agathon
"Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit."
M Scott Peck
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
H Ross Perot
The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
Homer
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
"What a grand thing, to be loved What a grander thing still, to love"
Victor Hugo
"Charlie Woman... woe-man... whoooa-man. She was a thief, you got to believe, she stole my heart and my cat. Judy, Betty, Josie and those hot Pussycats... they made me horny, on Saturday morning... girls of cartoo-ins will leave me in ruins... I want to to be Betty's Barney. Jane... get me off this crazy thing... called love."
So I Married an Axe Murderer
My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief."
Thomas Fuller