Saki Famous Quotes
People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened."
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Saki Quotations
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination.
Andrew Lang
"War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with."
Lois McMaster Bujold
"It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Mark Twain
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."
Frank Zappa
"Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor."
Eric Sevareid
"The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit."
Marya Mannes
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein
"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."
George Gordon Byron
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth."
Chief Joseph