e e cummings Famous Quotes
"To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.
for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea
"Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense."
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e e cummings Quotations
"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
Isaac Asimov
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices.
William James
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
Paul Fussell
"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit."
Ansel Adams
"We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty."
Mark Twain
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W Somerset Maugham
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
W Somerset Maugham
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
Saul Bellow