Robbie Burns (1759-1796)

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Jerry Garcia (1942-1995)

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

Og Mandino

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Octavio Paz (1914-1998)

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Ursula K. LeQuin

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Vincente Aleixandre (1898-1984)

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

Grace Slick

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Ginger Baker

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

Frederico Fellini (1920-1993)

A different language is a different vision of life.

Ace Frehley

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

George Harrison (1943-2001)

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

Neal Cassady (1926-1968)

I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Sid Caesar

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Octavio Paz (1914-1998)

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Aristotle (384 BC- 322 BC)

Hope is a waking dream.

Kit Carson (1809-1868)

In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds.

Thomas Merton (1915-1968)

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

James Joyce (1882-1941)

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or
some previous day.

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.

Red Skelton (1913-1997)

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

Bill Cosby

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Johnny Winter

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Lascelles Abercrombie

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

David Crosby

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

Bruce Springsteen

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

Confucius (551-479 B.C.)

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest

Bob Dylan

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Jonathan Winters

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Phyllis Diller

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Jerry Lewis

When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

Leonard Cohen

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Mae West (1893-1980)

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952)

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

Franz Kafka (1883-1924)

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

Jimmy Hoffa (1913-1975)

I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

Ravi Shankar

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Thich Nhat Hanh

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Andy Rooney (1919-2011)

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.