Arthur Miller

A playwright lives in an occupied country.
And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

Albert Schweitzer

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.

Sitting Bull

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth
has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and
we shall soon see the results of their love!

Wallace Stevens

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from
her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our
dreams and our desires.

Ian Anderson

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin
the fight of your life that is everyday.

Eric Clapton

I just managed to convince my grandmother
that it was a worth while that was something
to do, you know, and when I did finally get
the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to
me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.

Peter O'Toole

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying
and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness
and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet
sounds.

Paul Simon

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof
is the bottom line for everyone.

Robert Burns

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Robert Haas

Take the time to write. You can do your life's
work in half an hour a day.

Jerry Seinfeld

A two-year-old is kind of like having a
blender, but you don't have a top for it.

Timothy Leary

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy
as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If
Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Groucho Marx

Anyone who says he can see through
women is missing a lot.

Frank Gorshin

The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!

Frank Sinatra

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women.
But the truth is I've flunked more often than not.
I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all
men, I don't understand them.

Francis Bacon

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Irving Layton (1912-2006)

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

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Thomas Merton (1915-1968)

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose
ourselves at the same time.

John McLaughlin

You can have the greatest player in terms of
mastering an instrument and you could be yawning
your head off when you hear them. So, it's not
what you do, but the way you're doing it and
in the end that's all that we have.

Buddha

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the
future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

John Masefield (1878-1967)

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely
sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship
and a star to steer her by.

Frank Zappa

If you want to get laid, go to college. If
you want an education, go to the library.

Alannah Myles

Make sure you love what you do or it
will eat you alive.

Al Capp

Abstract art: a product of the untalented
sold by the unprincipled to the utterly
bewildered.

Andre Breton

If I place love above everything, it is because
for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing
state of affairs imaginable.