Walter Kerr Famous Quotes



"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them."


Walter Kerr Quotations






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"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."
Henry Ward Beecher

"If you don't stand up for something, then you'll fall for anything."
God s Little Instruction Book

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud puddle.
Gertrude Stein

"A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title --from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson"
Mark Twain

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin

"The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money."
A J Liebling

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
George Iles

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
Alexis Carrel

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw