"'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell;The loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell." Pedro Calderon de la Barca
(01/17/1600 – 05/25/1681)
Spanish writer
"'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell;
"Kill no more pigeons than you can eat."
Benjamin Franklin
"I would not send a poor girl into the world... ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself."
Anne Brontë
"I don't understand anything about ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses."
Anton Chekhov
"When they circumcised Herbert Samuel, they threw away the wrong bit."
David Lloyd George
"We never make sport of religion, politics, race, or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law—yes. But mothers—never."
Mack Sennett
"I hear it's the Hebrew in Heaven, sir. Spanish is seldom spoken."
Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank
"In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person."
George Bancroft
"In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments."
Rutherford B. Hayes
"This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault."
Robert M. Hutchins
"The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extraordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared."
Sir Francis Galton
"All creatures must learn to coexist. That’s why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Or course, they can’t mate or the mice would explode."
Betty White
"I think the world has a lot more important things to know about than Vidal Sassoon."
Vidal Sassoon
"My voice is for hire. My endorsement is not for hire. I will do a voice-over, but I cannot endorse without making a different kind of commitment. My politics are very personal and subjective."
James Earl Jones
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up."
Muhammad Ali
"I didn't think it was going anywhere, which just shows you how wrong you can be ... At the time, it seemed like the thing to do."
Mick Taylor
"Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that."
Steve Earle
"But I'm not trying to be funny. I just want to play with their heads."
Andy Kaufman
"Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass."
Jim Carrey
"You think education is something to be done when all else fails?"
T. H. White
"I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was 'wonderful.'"
Betty Smith
"It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s."
Zooey Deschanel
"I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'"
Barbara Jordan
"Should I get married? Should I be good?
"I really wanted to be a dancer, but I ended up as an actress and I got to perform next to some of the greatest actors of our time."
Virginia Mayo
"I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves."
Bobby Fischer
"They glanced at one another like tigers taking measure of a menacing new rival."
Erich Segal
