"Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceedingly cheated at."
John Evelyn(10/31/1620 – 02/27/1706)
English writer
"Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceedingly cheated at."
John Evelyn
"All political parties die at last swallowing their own lies."
John Arbuthnot
"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth."
Ellen Terry
"As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might."
Marian Anderson
"Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals."
John Steinbeck
"I don't think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much."
Joan Bennett
"All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely."
Lawrence Durrell
"If the players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds."
Irwin Shaw
"Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat."
Joanne Woodward
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
Elizabeth Taylor
"Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers."
Ralph Nader
"While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin."
Ivan Pavlov
"Give me two years, and I'll make her an overnight star."
Harry Cohn
"I found out why cats drink out of the toilet.My mother told me it's because it's cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know THAT?"
Wendy Liebman
"Barking dogs may occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot."
Konrad Lorenz
"In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."
Sam I. Hayakawa
"You know, when I first went into the movies, Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived, I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older."
Lillian Gish
"Some people are always late, like the late King George V."
Spike Milligan
"He is a man of his most recent word."
William F. Buckley